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 ...

E veryone grows up knowing the difference between herbivore, carnivore, and to a lesser extent, omnivore animals.That's especially the case if you happen to have been into dinosaurs at an early ...

The top level includes omnivores and carnivores. The second level includes herbivores (animals that eat vegetation) and the bottom level includes living things that produce their own energy, like ...

Humans and other primates have been omnivores for some time, which may have given us an evolutionary edge over strictly meat or plant eaters, a new study shows. It may have also prompted us to ...

What Big Teeth You Have: Was the Heterodontosaurus an Herbivore or a Carnivore or an Omnivore? Riley Black - Science Correspondent. November 3, 2008. Get our newsletter! Get our newsletter!

It took three times longer for omnivores to diversify, compared to herbivores. Producing more varied species means producing more progeny, which is the name of the game in evolution.

If diet is destiny, then modern humans should thank our ancestors for their ability to eat just about anything. Two new studies peek into the distant past to try to figure out just how big a role food ...