Article: Great white shark bite hardest of them all today

Article: Great white's mighty bite revealed.
NewsRx Health & Science;  August 18, 2008 ;     531 words ......calculated that the bite force of the great white...megalodon (also known as Big Tooth) is the highest...to 18.2 tonnes of bite force. Fossil evidence suggests that Big Tooth was an active predator...Estimates of maximum bite force for T. rex are ...

Article: Prehistoric Big Tooth was king of the predators; Giant shark's bite beat top dinosaur.(News)
Cape Argus (South Africa);  August 5, 2008 ;     500 words ......years ago, and that the creature doing the biting wasn't Big Tooth , the gigantic fossil shark Carcharodon megalodon. Believed...calculated that the largest living great whites have a bite force of up to 1.8 metric tons - way stronger than that of a lion at around 560kg of bite ...

Article: Great bite shark is king of snappers.(News)
Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  August 4, 2008 ;     256 words ......The fierce ocean predators have a bite force of about 1.8 tonnes - that's 20 times...Even a large African lion, with a bite force of 560g, can't compare with the shark...scenarios and reveal the powerful bite of the fearsome predator. The experts...the carcharodon megalodon. Dubbed ...

Article: New oral biology research from M. Bonakdarchian and colleagues discussed.(Report)
Health & Medicine Week;  May 4, 2009 ;     327 words ......this study was to determine mean maximum bite force in adults with normal occlusion and to...force transducer was developed to measure bite force and was calibrated with known loads...photographs. Effect of gender and face form on bite force was statistically analysed using two...

Article: Great white shark's extinct relative had the mightiest bite among all carnivores
The Hindustan Times;  August 4, 2008 ;     464 words ......sophisticated computer modelling to calculate that the bite force of the great white shark's extinct relative - the...It was found that the largest great whites have a bite force of up to 1.8 tonnes, which makes the great white...has endowed this carnivore with more than enough bite ...

Article: GREAT WHITE HAS THE HARDEST BITE AMONG ALL SHARKS
The Hindustan Times;  January 10, 2009 ;     409 words ......around 24 feet long, would have had a bite force of 9,320 Newton (N) at the tip of its...body sizes make the overall magnitude of bite force so great that the pound-for-pound issue...researchers gathered data about each species' bite force, either from other studies or by ...

Article: SHARK BITE 20 TIMES HARDER.(News)
The Mirror (London, England);  August 4, 2008 ;     204 words ......that the largest great whites have a bite force of up to 1.8 tonnes. That compares with...lion which can produce around 560kg of bite force and a human's of approximately 80kg...this carnivore with more than enough bite force to kill and eat large and potentially...

Article: Research reports from University of Guelph provide new insights into anatomy.(Report)
Life Science Weekly;  April 28, 2009 ;     365 words ......derived by regression analysis. Observed bite force values were not available for the database...forces were evaluated. Results show that bite force increases as size increases, and this...0.0001). The effect of skull shape on bite force was significant in medium and large dogs...

Article: EUPHORBIA - BIG TOOTH
Earth Life Forms;  January 1, 2002 ;     56 words ...Earth Life Forms 01-01-2002 EUPHORBIA - BIG TOOTH Locations: Africa - Southern Big Tooth Euphorbia (Euphorbia grandidens) can be a tree up to...DICOTS GERANIUM AND OXALIS AND ALLIES SPURGE EUPHORBIA - BIG TOOTH 2002 LifeStory Publications

Article: Sharks' bite force.(Headline Science: The Latest News in Science Research)
The Science Teacher;  October 1, 2007 ;     406 words ......predators, so Huber's research on sharks' bite force--their hunting performance--may offer...not wind up at the top of the list of bite force. The white has the narrowest head of...are expecting that it will have a lower bite force on a pound-for-pound basis. There are...

Article: Restoration of oral function with maxillary bone grafts and implants
Journal of Rehabilitation Research and Development;  June 1, 1996 ;     575 words ......METHODOLOGY-After pre-therapy evaluation of bite force, speech, deglutition, mastication, dietary...have undergone post-testing at 1 year. Bite force testing results at 1 month indicate significant differences in both maximum average bite force (F=37.87, df=1/7, p<0.0005), and ...

Article: New bone research study findings have been published by U. Thongudomporn and colleagues.(Survey)
Biotech Week;  March 4, 2009 ;     299 words ......To investigate to what extent maximum bite force contributes to alveolar bone morphology...Thailand. Height, weight and maximum bite force of each subject were recorded. Alveolar...were measured from study models. Maximum bite force moderately correlated with alveolar thickness...

Article: The Role of Biometrics in Canine Oral Health and Nutrition
Veterinary Medicine;  May 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......chewing capabilities including maximum bite force, or how much pressure an animal is capable...capabilities. (Williams, et. al., 2005) Bite force capabilities in canines Recently, attention has been given to the maximum bite force capabilities of dogs. A study by Thomason...

Article: Research from University of New South Wales yields new findings on zoology.
Computer Weekly News;  January 15, 2009 ;     291 words ......feared, yet poorly understood. Neither its bite force, nor how such force might be delivered...of a white shark to estimate maximum bite force and examine relationships among their...properties and function. We predict that bite force in large white sharks may exceed c. 1...