Gigantic Megalosauroid and Allosauroid Dinosaurs Had Weak Bites, Study Suggests

Tyrannosaurus rex holotype specimen at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, the United States. Image credit: Scott Robert Anselmo / CC BY-SA 3.0.

While tyrannosaurid dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex  had skulls that were optimized for high bite forces, other gigantic carnivorous dinosaurs such as megalosauroids and allosauroids had much weaker bites and instead specialized in slashing and ripping flesh, according to an analysis by University of Bristol paleontologists.

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