''Friendly'' dinosaurs

Usage examples of herbivores.

Great herds of rival duckbill species mingled, armored beasts like ceratops and ankylosaurs jostled for room, herbivores ran alongside giant predators.

Listener spotted a gaggle of juvenile coelurosaurs, gamely stalking their prey among the tree-trunk legs of the herbivores, at every moment risking death from a carelessly placed footfall or tail twitch.

But though there were great herbivores to fill the roles of antelopes, elephants, hippos, and wildebeests, and predators who hunted like lions, cheetahs, and hyenas, these animals were more closely related to birds than to any mammal.

In Africa there were archaic-looking long-necked giant herbivores and creatures like hippos with fat, low-slung bodies and powerfully clawed thumbs.

The intricate ecological relationships of herbivores and carnivores, of predators and prey, built up over a hundred and fifty million years, had utterly collapsed.

But they had been out of time: When the mammalian herbivores grew large, so did mammal carnivores, and the birds could not compete.

Jurassic herbivores that had once feasted on cycads, ferns, and conifers.

Animals weighing five tons or more were hurled into the air, great slow-moving herbivores suddenly flying.

Animals simply burst into flame: Raptors burned like saplings and great armored herbivores cooked in their own monstrous shells.

There were plenty of broad clearings where clumsy ground-dwelling herbivores rummaged.

She dashed out of cover, attracting blank stares from the rooting herbivores, and reached her eggs.

The big herbivores turned to face the rain, stoic misery in their posture.

But new, larger herbivores began to evolve, with heavy-duty ridged teeth able to cope with the new, coarser vegetation typical of seasonal woodland.

Giant mammalian herbivores, like mammoths or caribou, would have fared better here, as their young would have been safer at such a crucial moment in their lives.

Many herbivores learned to migrate, because of the seasonality of the rainfall.