Were dinosaurs ever vegetarian?

Yes, indeed. Some dinosaurs were vegetarians, consuming only plants. We also termed them “herbivores”, as we usually called animals that eat only plants. One plant-eating species of dinosaurs was the Barosaurus. It had a very long neck, so it could reach into the tree tops and consume the tender young leaves.

However, most of the largest vegetarian dinosaurs died about 140 million years ago. Soon after, smaller plant-eating dinosaurs such as the Iguanodon roamed the earth. Its main diet was low-growing ferns and bushes. Most vegetarian dinosaurs had cutting, puncturing and grinding teeth for chomping on plants, although some dinosaurs with weak teeth could only swallowed their plants without chewing them. Other characteristics of vegetarian dinosaurs were wide mouths for gathering leaves, big cheeks to hold huge chucks of food, as well as little claws on their toes to rip down tough leaves.

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