Karen Emslie explains how plant-eating dinosaurs, with tiny their heads and enormous bodies, found enough food to eat, despite limited resources <\/p>
\u00a0 <\/span><\/b>Our modern ecosystem with its diverse flora only supports one really enormous land animal, the elephant<\/a><\/strong>. Yet millions of years ago, even in some harsh and semi-arid environments, multiple species of gigantic plant-eating dinosaurs (many of which would dwarf an elephant) co-existed. <\/span><\/p>\n These herbivores, with their massive bodies and comparatively tiny heads, needed to consume vast amounts of food to survive.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div> <\/section> Researchers from Bristol University\u2019s School of Earth Sciences and the Natural History Museum believe that they did so by evolving skull and jaw adaptations optimised for particular diets. <\/span><\/p>\n This ensured that different dinosaurs were not competing for the same plant material. For example some dinosaurs, such as Camarasaurus<\/i>, had a strong jaw and bite which could chomp through tough leaves and branches, while others, such as Diplodocus, had weaker bites and delicate skulls more suited to ferns and soft leaves.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Karen Emslie explains how plant-eating dinosaurs, with tiny their heads and enormous bodies, found enough food to eat, despite limited resources <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":24928,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":{"readingTimeMinutes":"2"},"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food.jpg",2168,1382,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food-300x191.jpg",300,191,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food-768x490.jpg",768,490,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food-1024x653.jpg",800,510,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food-1536x979.jpg",1536,979,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2023\/02\/how-did-herbivore-dinosaurs-get-enough-food-2048x1306.jpg",2048,1306,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Karen Emslie explains how plant-eating dinosaurs, with tiny their heads and enormous bodies, found enough food to eat, despite limited resources","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/24927"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/bbcwildlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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