Close up of saltwater crocodile as it emerges from water with a toothy grin. The crocodile’s skin colorings and pattern camoflage the animal in the wild. Bite force, according to a study published in ...

Native to Africa, where they live in tropical forests, marshes, mountains, and upland habitats, gorillas are powerful primates that are closely related to humans. Gorillas are the largest extant ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - As a frame of reference, each animal bite you’ll read about will be measured in pounds per square inch, or PSI. We’ll use the human bite as a baseline, which averages 162 PSI ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. When a young crocodile-like caiman chomped ...

Tooth by deadly tooth, dinosaurs with a hunger for meat bit using four basic techniques, with strength sacrificed for speed and vice versa, new research finds. Carnivorous dinosaurs ranged from weak ...

Scientists have experimentally measured the bite force of adult T. rexes but not of younger tyrannosaurs. Fossils with juvenile bite marks have now allowed experts to experimentally test how hard ...

I was working on a paper that dealt with dog bites and wanted to include some mention of the strength of dog bites for particular breeds. I have been at several conferences dealing with dog behavior ...