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In the 1. 99. 3 cult classic Jurassic Park, a T. It’s a scene that crystallized the destructive power of this extinct apex predator in the public consciousness—and as a new study highlights, it might not have been that hyperbolic. Monster movies a’plenty have taught us that T. Not so easy for a creature that went extinct 6. Florida State University paleontologists has now done, using a combination of fossils, 3. D reconstructions, and computer modeling. The researchers estimated that T. Combined with an insanely high tooth pressure, the results explain how T. Osteophagy is almost unheard of in reptiles; their long, conical teeth don’t tend to clamp together to deliver the crushing forces needed to shatter bone. And yet Gregory Erickson, FSU paleontologist and co- author of the new study published today in Scientific Reports, has long observed that the bite marks on the brutalized carcasses of T. One thing I noticed . I was able to figure out it was T. To show that T. rex’s teeth had what it took, Erickson, along with paleontologist Paul Gignac, performed a comprehensive analysis of the animal’s bite, combining measurements from T. Gignac developed during grad school to predict bite forces in crocodilians based on their musculature. Ultimately, the researchers estimated a T. More significantly for bone crushing, the animal’s tooth pressure—a measure of how forces are transmitted through each tooth—reached a staggering 4. Together, high bite force and bone pressure allowed T. According to Erickson, T. Erickson thinks his numbers, while conservative, are more accurate, because they’re based on scaling forces up from the muscles of crocodiles, a close living relative. Eric Snively, vertebrate anatomist and paleontologist at University of Wisconsin La Crosse who was not involved with the new research, said it was “a great study” and agreed that the authors are on the right track with their bite force estimates. Erickson wouldn’t go that far—yet. Gizmodo regrets the error.
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