307-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Plant-Eating Land Vertebrate Found in Canada

Feb 10, 2026 - 19:15
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307-Million-Year-Old Fossil of Plant-Eating Land Vertebrate Found in Canada
Life reconstruction of Tyrannoroter heberti. Image credit: Hannah Fredd.

Tyrannoroter heberti, a new species of pantylid ‘microsaur’ from the Carboniferous period, shows that some of Earth’s earliest land vertebrates had already evolved complex teeth for grinding plants, suggesting terrestrial herbivory emerged rapidly after animals moved onto land.

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