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'If you can bench press a car, you are good to go': Inside the incredible bite-force of crocodiles
In this adapted extract from "Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth, from Hagfish to Humans" (Algonquin Books, 2024), author and vertebrates zoologist Bill Schutt investigates the extraordinary bite ...
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Hagfishes: how much slime can a slime eel make?
Hagfishes can also use this knot tying ability to help them feed. When the fish bites into flesh, it will form a knot that it slides up and over its head. This pushes the hagfish away from the carcass ...
‘Bite’ Review: An Incisive Natural History
Teeth can be vital to evolutionary success, notes the vertebrate zoologist Bill Schutt in “Bite: An Incisive History of Teeth ...