Australian Saltwater Crocs Are World's Most Powerful Biters
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 09:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Greg Erickson, a Florida State biology professor, and his colleagues have been pondering a particularly painful-sounding question: How hard do alligators and crocodiles bite? The answer is a bite force value of 3,700 pounds for a 17-foot saltwater crocodile (as well as tooth pressures of 350,000 pounds per square inch). That's the highest bite force ever recorded