Great white's mighty bite revealed

Monday, August 4, 2008 - 18:14 in Biology & Nature

Using sophisticated computer modelling techniques they have also calculated that the bite force of the great white's extinct relative, the gigantic fossil species Carcharodon megalodon (also known as Big Tooth) is the highest of all time, making it arguably the most formidable carnivore ever to have existed. read more

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