#bite force

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Yeen Fact #702: Big Kid Teeth

Yeen Fact #702: "Spotted hyenas are born with baby teeth, but by about 5 months old those are replaced by permanent adult teeth (Including the famously huge premolars that let them crush bones). By a year, the full-bone cracking set will be in place, ready for biting!" This has been another fun Hyena Fact.

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working hard on my artfight references phew. nothing crazy just flat colors, but here is beta, bombshell, and tombstone! plus sketches to be digitalized of bite force and chomp :)

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Hop on that new sleep phonk

[karenz0]

BIG NEW BATTLEBOTS NEWS

Okay so I'm pretty sure this isn't World Championship 8, it's not being marketed like it, but-

Battlebots has got a new sponsor, BrightData, and they've announced that they're going to be doing a new tournament soon!

Facebook Supporters will get more info February 26th, so there's obviously something big going on!

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How big do you think Susie’s bite force is? If she’s a dinosaur then it’s probably high. If she’s a T.Rex then it’s very very high

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Monday Musings: Who hunted Sauropods?

With the immense size of most sauropods it is hard to imagine what might have been brave enough (or stupid enough) to take one on. It seems unlikely but theropod tooth marks have been found on sauropod bones so we know they were being eaten at the very least.

Mmm, Apatosaurus ischium.

Allosaurus is probably the most well-known of the sauropod predators. Often found alongside sauropod remains, it is highly likely that it hunted juveniles or sick adults in packs. One hypothesis for its hunting strategy is that it would use its head somewhat like an axe.

It had a relatively weak bite force but incredibly strong neck muscles. Its skull could withstand forces almost 15x that of its bite. They were also fast sprinters so they could ambush their prey. They would run up, use their massive, recurved claws on their hands as hooks to grapple prey much like raptors (meaning birds of prey, actual raptors) and then use their jaws to rake flesh off the sauropod causing it to bleed out. This allowed Allosaurus to follow behind at a safe distance while its prey bled to death.

Allosaurus vs Barosaurus

It is likely that cousins of Allosaurus such as Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, and Mapusaurus also hunted sauropods in packs. All of these carnosaurs lived in sauropod heavy environments and had similar body plans that would allow them to hunt in similar fashions.

Carcharodontosaurus vs Rebbachisaurus by Mark Witton

Giganotosaurus and Sauropod by Bob Walters and Tess Kissinger

Mapusaurus vs sauropods

It has also been suggested that abelisaurids like Majungasaurus were specialized for hunting sauropods. With short, broad snouts they might have hunted like modern felids: bite and hold on.

Majungasaurus tooth marks have been found on Rapetosaurus bones so we know they were eating sauropods at the very least.

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Bite Force (2016)

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we now return to ROBO TRUMBLE! oh, i’m sorry, I mean ROBOT RUMBLE. /ref