The skull of the desert rat-kangaroo was compared with the skulls of short-faced specialists of harder foods like the burrowing bettong, or boodie, and the specialists of softer fungi like the ...

The ability of ferocious land animals to bite prey evolved in ancient fish, a new study finds. Fish predominantly capture prey with suction, which can be seen by watching a goldfish constantly ...

This specialized mode of biting expands the variety of skull morphologies biting eels exhibit, as species with uniformly reduced hyoids, such as the morays, experience adaptation of the jaws to ...

"A biting or chewing motion would result in a faint pushing together of the frontal bones in the skull, while a sucking motion would pull those bones ever so slightly apart.

Polar bear skulls can't take stress of biting Polar bear skulls may put them at a disadvantage when competing with their close relative, the brown bear, concluded a team of researchers.

EVEN the weakest parts of Tyrannosaurus rex's skull were built to crush bones and rip flesh. Many joints in the fearsome creature's skull were held in place loosely by ligaments, which studies of ...

Past studies estimated the T. rex's biting force to be as powerful as 13,400 Newtons (3,012 lbs). However, the new British study, which tested a wider range of muscles, found the biting force was ...

"We were surprised to find the heftier skull of the desert rat-kangaroo isn't necessarily adapted for biting into harder foods. When we included the animal's smaller size into the analysis, the ...

Using computer models of historic skeleton specimens, the new study uses a method called Finite Element Analysis (FEA) to test the skull’s ability to handle the forces that happen during biting ...