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Megaherbivore (Zoology 🦥)
Megaherbivores are large herbivores that can exceed 1,000 kg in weight. The earliest herbivores to reach such sizes like the pareiasaurian reptiles and dinocephalian therapsids appeared in the Permian period. During most of the Mesozoic, the megaherbivore niche was largely dominated by dinosaurs up until their extinction during the Cretaceous–Paleogene e...
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