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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
When scientists finally measured the most powerful bite ever recorded, the winner wasn’t T. rex. It was something far older, ...
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 ...
The skull of Tyrannosaurus rex acted like a giant shock absorber to withstand the dinosaur's bone-crushing, flesh-tearing eating habits, according to a new study. The U.K. study, published in the ...
The teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex have been called "killer bananas," and a new study in the journal Scientific Reports shows just how hard those fearsome chompers could clamp down. "What we came up with ...