Studying the Noble King Mackerel
Size of lunch dictates force of crunch (w/ Video)
Many animals prefer food—snails, nuts, etc.—that must be cracked and crushed. Scientists have measured the maximum force of their impressive bites before, but a new study introduces a significant subtlety: bite force ...
Feb 12, 2013
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Piranha tops T Rex in the bite league, study finds
Outsized jaw muscles allow the black piranha to exert bite force equivalent to 30 times its bodyweight, a feat unmatched in the natural world, according to results of a finger-risking study published Thursday.
Dec 20, 2012
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Studying bat skulls, evolutionary biologists discover how species evolve
A new study involving bat skulls, bite force measurements and scat samples collected by an international team of evolutionary biologists is helping to solve a nagging question of evolution: Why some groups ...
Nov 23, 2011
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Scientists develop method for determining diet of our early ancestors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Were our early mammalian ancestors vegetarians, vegans or omnivores? It's difficult for anthropologists to determine the diet of early mammalians because current fossil analysis provides too ...
Sep 16, 2010
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