Australian saltwater crocodiles are world’s most powerful biters
Friday, March 16, 2012 - 20:30
in Earth & Climate
Marine biologists 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.