The strongest bites in the animal kingdom

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(11-05-2019, 09:35 PM)DinoFan83 Wrote:

(11-05-2019, 09:33 PM)Shadow Wrote:

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(11-05-2019, 09:27 PM)Shadow Wrote:

(11-05-2019, 09:10 PM)DinoFan83 Wrote: Dunkleosteus is IMO, the king of the biters. 36 tonnes at the tip of the fang - that's insane for a fish weighing only about 4.7 tonnes!
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061129094125.htm

To put that into perspective, this not only outclasses the bite forces of Tyrannosaurus rex (6 tonnes), Purussaurus (7 tonnes), Megalodon (18 tonnes) and Pliosaurus (24 tonnes), but it means Dunkleosteus is able to bite down with over 7.6 times its body weight! That's immense!

I understood, that comparable bite force was 11 000 lbs, 4989,5 kg.

Quote:
"November 29 reveals that the force of this predator's bite was remarkably powerful: 11,000 pounds. The bladed dentition focused the bite force into a small area, the fang tip, at an incredible force of 80,000 pounds per square inch."

Another quote: 
"The extinct fish had the strongest bite of any fish ever, and one of the strongest bites of any animal, rivaling the bites of large alligators and Tyrannosaurus rex."

So they don´t say, that it had stronger bite force than T-rex or other animals you mention. But it had strong force at the tip of the fang. If we could have same kind of numbers from these other animals, then that 80 000 lbs could be compared to those. 4,7 ton fish unlikely would have stronger muscles than bigger animals to bite. But when some force is concentrated to a very small area, values can be huge. Like a woman walking with normal shoes and then stepping on your toes, no big deal. But doing the same with high heels and with only heal, another story immediately even though same weight.

Oh, sorry. I misworded my post.

Dunkleosteus bites PROPORTIONATELY harder than all those other animals. Only at the fang tip is it 36 tonnes.

Do you have same kind of values of these other animals? 6 tonnes for T-rex sounds a bit shy? Or is that also from tip of the fangs? I have never looked too closely those values from prehistorical creatures.

I am not too sure either. Let's see if I can find anything, maybe from The World of Animals.

Or when talking about T-rex, more like tips of the teeth :) That Dunkleostus had very interesting looking teeth and head, really looking like made to focus power to frontal teeth when biting. Easy to believe that it could have had exceptional biting force focused to small area. Reply