There's a new National Geographic article about the T. rex bite force.

[Faelrin]

I apologize if this has been shared already. If not, here's the link to it (with a heads up/warning that there is some brutal gory artwork in it depicting a rex ripping apart a Triceratops head, that can probably be considered NSFW) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/t-rex-bite-could-have-crushed-a-car-thanks-to-its-stiff-skull/

We've been getting quite the recent bit of interesting discoveries regarding T. rex lately (such as the whole air conditioned head thing, or the Victoria specimen), and while this might not be 100% new, it might be changing some of what we knew up (not 100% sure about this though, any of you that has a better grasp on this want to help out explaining please?).

I, and I'm sure many of you here are already well familiar with T. rex having this really impressive and powerful bite force, and probably understand it better then I do, but I think it is kind of neat to see more stuff coming out about the biomechanics of it all, as well as just seeing something in action about this for once finally (though fair warning that the video on it included in the article does contain a lot of flashing, due to them taking images of the process).

And that first paragraph in the article certainly gives me the chills, especially when thinking about Jurassic Park (and how different it could have been in regards to what we currently understand about this animal now, plot aside), or perhaps even a potential scenario in the next film. Heck it even makes me feel even worse for poor Eddie in TLW:JP.

[ITdactyl]

A lot of people have been dismissing this as common knowledge, when the point of the article (and the paper) was: "Yes, Tyrannosaurus rex did have a really strong bite and here's our theory why..."

I enjoyed Brian Engh's writeup for his gory artwork.  'Might be too snarky for his detractors, but he did provide a good explanation with simple language. 
http://dontmesswithdinosaurs.com/?p=2329

[Uncle Rex]

Very interesting article. Thanks.

[suspsy]

I love that artwork by Brian Engh. Sometimes I feel that, in our urge to envision dinosaurs as real animals and not monsters, we forget that animals can be downright horrifying, merciless, and even cruel. Like this alligator crunching a turtle in its jaws. I imagine a T. rex doing something similar to the head of its prey, or its own kind for that matter.

Fair warning, this isn't pretty!
https://youtu.be/35VU0pHB7-s

[Brocc21]

Has anyone done tests on how much of a force an Ankylosaurus could take. (taking a parallel to the video of the Gator)

[Faelrin]

Yep the artwork was certainly right up my ally as I'm quite familiar with how brutal nature and predator prey relationships can be (edit: he talks about Hyena's, etc in that article, and I can't stress enough how savage they and African Wild Dogs are with their prey, aka eating it alive, and of course those are far from the only examples out there), so it is certainly refreshing seeing paleoart done in such an intense manner to further drive that point home. I also liked that it touched up on the whole rex decapitating Triceratops thing (since why else would the head be floating). I'll definitely have to give that writeup a read now.

[Kotori_Sonoda]

Wow that art is awesome. I'm so gonna show it to friends hahaha (with proper warning of course!)

[HD-man]

I apologize if this has been shared already. If not, here's the link to it (with a heads up/warning that there is some brutal gory artwork in it depicting a rex ripping apart a Triceratops head, that can probably be considered NSFW) https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/09/t-rex-bite-could-have-crushed-a-car-thanks-to-its-stiff-skull/

That article confuses me. Are there or are there not "bones around the sides of a T.rex skull [that] were quite loosely connected to act as shock absorbers"?