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 ...

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? In ...

Flower's reasoning was sound. The jaws of Thylacoleo most closely resembled those of herbivorous marsupials - not other carnivores - and the anatomical similarity of its skull to that of plant-eaters ...

Ellie shows a couple how to find the balance between meat and vegetarian dishes. He’s a meat eater. She’s a vegetarian. Their kitchen has become a battleground. Can this marriage be saved? It’s Ellie ...

A tiny, lizardlike carnivore that skittered across swampy ground roughly 300 million years ago helped set the stage for some of the largest plant eaters the planet has ever seen. Its story is a ...

As Sartre wrote, “Hell is other people.” While you vegans and carnivores have been making plenty of noise, there is a population of omnivores silently creeping among you, ducking behind buildings and ...

When I was in elementary school, I was taught that one of the ways to tell a reptile from a mammal was by looking at their teeth. Reptiles, like lizards and crocodiles, had a mouth full of nearly ...

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... If diet is destiny, then modern humans should thank ...

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? In ...

A restoration of the skull of Thylacoleo. From The Ancient Life History of the Earth. *[I am not sure if Owen made this connection or tried to square it with his own thoughts on evolutionary theory. I ...