Were more dinosaurs carnivores or herbivores?
There were many more plant-eaters!
Some dinosaurs were carnivores (meat-eaters) but most were herbivores
(plant-eaters). In any food chain, there have to be more organisms at
the lower levels of the chain because the transfer of food energy is
inefficient and much of the energy is wasted. During the Mesozoic Era (as in other times), plant diversity was greater than animal diversity.
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