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Tyrannosaurus Rex Had a Biting Force Equaling Three Cars' Weight

posted by n1 on Saturday May 27 2017, @02:34PM   
from the what's-that-in-football-fields? dept.

acid andy writes:

Scientists have come up with one more reason to be amazed by Tyrannosaurus rex. When the huge carnivorous dinosaur took a bite, it did so with an awe-inspiring force equal to the weight of three small cars, enabling it to crunch bones with ease.

Researchers on Wednesday said a computer model based on the T. rex jaw muscle anatomy and analyses of living relatives like crocodilians and birds showed its bite force measured about 8,000 pounds (3,630 kg), the strongest of any dinosaur ever estimated.

"T. rex could pretty much bite through whatever it wanted, as long as it was made of flesh and bone," said Florida State University paleobiologist Gregory Erickson.

Given the size of the creature - and the size of what it presumably tried to eat - it makes sense that it evolved those kind of muscles.

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• name must be changed to protect the childrenname must be changed to protect the children (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:18PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 27 2017, @04:18PM (#516446)

  As the strongest dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex deserves the name rex, so now it is our duty as Social Science Warriors to strip the T rex of its title. King of the dinosaurs is a patriarchal supremacist and must be taken down a notch because the name has unfortunate associations to kings and tyrants and gives poor human children an inferiority complex. T rex shall henceforth be known as Terrorist McTerrorface.

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• Re:name must be changed to protect the children(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @12:36PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 28 2017, @12:36PM (#516719)

  Tyrannosaurus Regina ?

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