Re: Guts-Eating Spinosaurs

["Jordan Mallon" <j_mallon@hotmail.com>]

> From: "no go" <honkietong@hotmail.com>

> To my knowledge, according to the paper, at least, the bite force studies 
> of Allosaurus indicated it had a surprisingly weak bite, but the strong 
> skull of the animal allowed it to employ its head via its powerful neck 
> muscles like some kind of hatchet to bring down on the target, prehaps 
> ending with a backwards pull to enlarge the wound. But as far as bite force 
> is concerned, Allosaurus did pretty poor (at least according to the paper).

Well, that's aside from the point I was trying to make.  I was trying to 
stress the overall strength of the skull, and not the force of the bite.  At 
any rate, this topic will go off on a tangent all of its own.

Jordan Mallon

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