And yet now the land seemed strangely empty: no giant herbivores, no pursuing carnivores crossed the empty stage beyond his ancestor's thin- cheeked, shadowed, huge-eyed face.
Allosaurus was about 11 metres long and could walk at 5 mph (8 kph), double the speed of the giant herbivores, who could retreat into deep water.
As one of the giant herbivores charged, massed fire from the Marines perched on its flank would smash into it from the side.
The giant herbivores were undoubtedly a major pest in the area.
No way would forty giant herbivores fit in the lander.
They'd reached the carcass of the giant herbivore, and he examined more closely.
Computer graphics recreate ancient ice age plains populated by woolly mammoths and show how these giant herbivores evolved to survive the harsh climate.
This giant herbivore used to be 66 feet long and have the wrong head, the result of a mistaken inference by the original collectors.
In Asian forests, large seeds require giant herbivores like elephants and rhinoceros for transport and dispersal.
Carpenter cited several studies of giant mammalian herbivores, such as elephants and rhinoceros, which showed that larger size in plant-eating animals leads to greater efficiency in digesting food.