adapted for stalking and attacking a variety of prey. Its robust jaws, equipped with sharp teeth, attest to its hypercarnivorous diet. It likely preyed on medium-sized animals, such as arboreal ...

The authors used an X-ray imaging system to compare the movements during prey capture and swallowing. The catfish’s skull bones were more coordinated for the prey capture phase and operated more ...

Like the intracranial joint, this feature is unknown in any other extant animal. With the aid of the intracranial joint and other cranial muscles, the coelacanth usually swallows its prey whole.

Jaguars kill either by throat-bite suffocation or by seizing their prey at the back of the head and then crunching down through the skull with their canines - also used for breaking through turtle ...

Snakes that swallow animals whole, or birds that have to ... Cast said his study results, which indicate the T. rex's skull handled prey in a similar way to a hyena's, could shed some light ...

Some birds of prey catch live animals, some eat animals that are already ... If you look at this skull here. This is from a tawny owl. All birds of prey have got very big eyes.