Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores—but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures?

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores -- but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures?

Evolution has resulted in the development of both herbivores and carnivores – but how? What type of food did extinct vertebrates eat? And how can we gain insight into the diets of these creatures?

What if every animal on Earth became a carnivore? Herbivores turning into hunters, prey disappearing overnight—this ...

The Carnivore Diet—where fruits and vegetables are banished, and butter is a snack—may seem like satire, but it’s a growing ...

Lions are an example of a carnivore. They hunt and eat other animals such as zebras, buffalos and antelopes. Animals that eat plants are called herbivores. As they eat a diet of grass and clover ...

It also implies the transfer of food energy from its source in plants through herbivores to carnivores (Krebs 2009). Normally, food webs consist of a number of food chains meshed together.

Modern oceans, for comparison, max out at trophic level five or six, represented by apex predators like orcas, sperm whales, ...