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History of Herbivory; Mass Extinction.

You call this a mass extinction event? Ha. I’ll show you a mass extinction event. Maybe you by now you would guess that I would say something like that, since I don't like to agree. But I also want to say that actually the mass extinction event that everyone knows about, the "KP" Extinction that […]

The Crushing March of the Flowers (or the History of Herbivory Part V)

There is nothing new under the sun and the world is born fresh at every moment. Holding both of those ideas at once will help you grab the overarching thesis of this very long series, which is eating up a significant percentage of the history herbivory. The next important milestone in the history of herbivory […]

History of Herbivory Part IV

First-hand knowledge is so much better than second-hand knowledge. In the world of the internet, we are awash in second and third-hand knowledge. As a culture, we are trying to make up for many thousands of years when new ideas were carried from village to village by carrier sloths. Though of course a lot of […]

History of Herbivory; Jurassic Sauropods

Just like meeting your friend's parents helps you understand that friend, Sauropod dinosaurs can help us understand us to understand our own herbivore-maintained-ecosystems. But before we get into that I must reluctantly do the almanac section, where I tell you what happened here on the ranch, even though it's been pointed out that there were […]

History of Herbivory Part II: The Jurassic

Savannas are central to the Bentgrass Blog so you might suspect that this history of herbivory is going to be about savannas. I’m not going to say one way or the other on that count. What I will tell you is that in this next section we are going to investigate the Jurassic through the […]

History of Herbivory Part I: Before Herbivory

If you are so close to something that you can’t see the edges than you are going to miss something important. For this reason, we are going to start our deep dive into the history of herbivory by looking at the portion of the earth’s history before there were herbivores. First, we need to look […]