Herbivores only eat things that need photosynthesis to live. This excludes insects, spiders, fish and other animals. Some parasitic plants that feed off of other plants are also considered herbivores.

Everyone knows that herbivores only eat plants, right? Actually, that's not always the case, but who's eating the meat and why are they eating it?

Most of us learned in school that carnivores eat meat, herbivores eat plants and omnivores eat both. These aren’t just feeding preferences, these categories refer to the ability of these animals ...

Plants and animals usually have different ways of feeding themselves. Within the animal kingdom, herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat mostly herbivores, and omnivores eat both. (Even though your ...

About one in four species of herbivores, 25.5%, are considered threatened, ... a comprehensive new study finds that plant-eating herbivores are the animals most at risk of extinction.

Scientists have long been mystified about how animals who munch on plants in Yellowstone National Park all get enough food to eat. Animals all living in the same habitat and eating the same foods ...

Many factors influence what herbivores such as rabbits eat but the role of genome size, which is the amount of DNA in an organism's cells, in herbivore-plant interaction was unknown.

A new study finds that one in four plant-eating animals is at risk for extinction. Wednesday’s study is counter to what scientists long thought. Conservationists had focused their extinction … ...

Although scientists often worry most about the loss of the world’s predators, a comprehensive new study finds that plant-eating herbivores are the animals most at risk of extinction. About one ...