When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...
Why T. rex was different Tyrannosaurids had stiff, akinetic skulls—meaning the joints allowed almost no movement. Combined with deep skulls, thick bone, and massive jaw muscles, this design produced ...
Tyrannosaurus rex jaws generated 8,000-pound bite forces and let the creature eat everything from duck-billed dinosaurs to triceratops. The teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex have been called "killer bananas, ...
Revolutionary new research has shattered long-held assumptions about dinosaur predation strategies, revealing that Tyrannosaurus rex’s bone-crushing bite force was just one of several successful ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tyrannosaurus subdued prey with raw power, using bone-crushing bite force. But other meat-eating dinosaurs that rivaled T. rex in size used different approaches. Giganotosaurus ...
A comprehensive new analysis of the bite forces of 18 species of dinosaurs has revealed that, despite their size, several of the giant prehistoric predators packed much weaker bites than previously ...
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - As a frame of reference, each animal bite you’ll read about will be measured in pounds per square inch, or PSI. We’ll use the human bite as a baseline, which averages 162 PSI ...