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‘There Wasn’t One Best Skull Design’: Diverse Biting Styles in Giant Theropods

Although some giant meat‑eating dinosaurs like tyrannosaurids famously evolved skulls optimized for incredibly powerful, bone‑crushing bites, others, like the megalosauroids and allosauroids, relied on lighter, faster, slashing-style jaws. A new study in Current Biology reveals that large carnivorous dinosaurs adopted different biomechanical strategies to meet the demands of predation. A research team led by Andre

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