Re: The Lion, the Witch and the New Papers

[Jamie Stearns <stearns5@cox.net>]

> Their results show that oras actually have rather weak bites, but the skull 
> bones are aligned in such a way that they "lock up" rather well when 
> pulling back. This >allows them to exert pullback forces that can be an 
> order of magnitude greater than those produced by the jaw adductors. A 
> great design for an animal that takes >down large vertebrate prey using a 
> skull composed of struts and beams.

Reminds me of Bakker and Rayfield's analyses of Allosaurus bites.