The first and most obvious reason for herbivores eating meat is as simple as "because it's there." Opportunistic meat eating by plant eaters is a known phenomenon, especially when those animals ...

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 ...

If you notice your plants are being devoured, it's likely by one of these common garden creatures. Tammi Mild / Getty Images While there are plenty of beneficial insects and cute mammals in your ...

Deer are browsers and mostly subsist on foliage from trees and bushes.

Most plant-eating dinosaurs belong to two categories: There were ornithischian — which means "bird-hipped" — dinosaurs, like Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Iguanodons and ankylosaurs, and sauropodomorph ...

Have you ever thought about what animals in the wild need to survive? Like us, they need a balanced diet, which they get over the course of the year: lots of berries in the summer, fresh green ...

Others are called ‘herbivores’. They only eat plants. Animals that eat meat and plants are called ‘omnivores’. Watch the video to learn more about animal groups and what they eat.

Why do cattle eat grass and still get fat and produce nutritious milk? If you want to know why grass-eating animals get fat, ...

This journey took them from small generalists to becoming large and specialised “plant-eating machines” which rival modern cows and sheep. New research, led by Dr Attila Ősi from Eötvös Loránd ...

Sauropods were the largest land-living animals of all time. Finding the traces of a sauropod’s last meal is nothing short of ...

The moral of the story is: gardeners can be confident "that planting (deer-resistant plants) on a Thursday— they'll still be there on a Friday," according to Down to Earth Living's Stuart Leventhal.

Gophers love to eat food growing in vegetable gardens. "Gophers can consume up to 60 percent of their body weight daily which can quickly make them a nuisance to your lawn and garden," says Pearson.