Sentence examples for weak bite from inspiring English sources

The researchers found that while the allosaurus had a relatively weak bite, it had a very strong skull.

The attachment sites for the muscles that open and close the jaws were very small in comparison to the size of the skull, which indicates Deinocheirus had a weak bite force.

The jaws, thought by Fowler and colleagues to be comparatively weak, would have been useful for row saw motion bites like the modern day komodo dragon, which also has a weak bite, to finish of its prey if the kicks weren't powerful enough.

This simplified jaw myology is similar to that of birds in which M. pterygoideus anterior is also the dominant adductor [56] and would have provided azhdarchids with a relatively weak bite.

Nevertheless, the weak bite force and fine scale of scratches on the wear facets in Nigersaurus favor soft understory vegetation, possibly immature ferns or horsetails [45], an interpretation that is at least consistent with a mid Cretaceous (ca. 110 Ma) habitat dominated by inland floodplains associated with high-energy river systems.

Despite being more powerfully built than other large cats, Smilodon actually had a weaker bite.

Recent morphological examinations of dingo and thylacine skulls show that although the dingo had a weaker bite, its skull could resist greater stresses, allowing it to pull down larger prey than the thylacine could.

Both this and the other mastication muscles were likely weak, and Nigersaurus is estimated to have had one of the weakest bites of the sauropods.

There seems to a be a general rule that the saber-toothed cats with the largest canines had proportionally weaker bites.

Accipitrids lack "tomial teeth" and have a weaker bite-force than falconids [17]; they therefore have greater reliance on constriction to immobilise small prey.

A high MA is predictive of fish with powerful bites, while a low MA is predictive of fast, weaker bites [ 25].