Using global satellite data, a research team has mapped the tree cover of the world’s protected areas. The study shows that regions with abundant large herbivores in many settings have a more variable ...

Herbivores are those animals that mainly consume plant food. The animals form a backbone to global ecosystems since they determine the landscapes, recycle nutrients, disperse seeds, and ensure the ...

Scientists have studied the extinction of mega-herbivores -- plant-eating animals that weighed more than one ton -- that occurred approx. 12,000 years ago. The scientists reached the conclusion that, ...

Large animals, especially herbivores such as elephants, are often seen as being destructive of vegetation, so are not thought of as a nature-based climate solution. Scientists are proving otherwise.

The advent of chewing by a group of herbivores 260 million years ago may have signaled one of the first great bursts of vertebrate life on land, say paleontologists from University of Toronto and Duke ...

A red deer (Cervus elaphus) stag, in Freyr forest, near Han-sur-Lesse, Belgium. Red deer can prevent the regeneration of forest. Whether this is seen as negative or positive may depend on both the ...

The American genetic engineering firm Colossal Biosciences recently announced to much fanfare it had "de-extincted" the dire wolf, a canine species that was wiped out around 10,000 years ago. However, ...

The population of large herbivores is declining, posing potential long-term threats to ecosystems worldwide, a new study found. The report by an international team of wildlife ecologists, published ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Lots of reptiles love their protein. They have a constant desire for the stuff to compliment their lifestyles, and that’s why there are so few herbivorous lizards out there. On the other hand, iguanas ...