Examples of herbivorous in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The ancient fossil belongs to a stegosaur, an herbivorous dinosaur with a tiny head and bony plates marching down its back, ending in a spiked tail. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 3 Mar. 2022 That’s the conclusion of a new study that investigated the social habits of a long-necked, herbivorous dinosaur called Mussaurus that lived around 200 million years ago. — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2021 This new finding comes just a month after the announcement of another new species found on the Isle of Wight, the iguanodontian, a 26-foot-long herbivorous dinosaur. — Mike Snider, USA TODAY, 22 Dec. 2021 It is consumed by herbivorous fish, which are then eaten by larger fish. — Sarah Burchard, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2021 Mussaurus was a type of dinosaur called a sauropodomorph, which represented the first great success story among herbivorous dinosaurs. — Reuters, CNN, 22 Oct. 2021 His team has previously made headlines worldwide with their 2018 discovery of Mansourasaurus, a new species of long-necked herbivorous dinosaurs that lived in the Nile Delta province of Mansoura. — Noha Elhennawy, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Sep. 2021 This discovery could help piece together the evolutionary timeline of sauropodomorphs, a clade of long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs that includes M. patagonicus, according to the press release. — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021 The herbivorous animals could reach up to 5,500 kilograms (866 stone) and 9 meters (29 feet) in length. — Amy Woodyatt, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021 See More

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