This ancient animal was one of the first to eat plants on land

ScienceDaily
Feb 11, 2026, 3:19 am92 pts
Hundreds of millions of years ago, the first animals to crawl onto land were strict meat-eaters, even as plants had already taken over the landscape. Now scientists have uncovered a 307-million-year-old fossil that rewrites that story: one of the earliest known land vertebrates to start eating plants. The…

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