Video: ‘Crash-tested’ skulls throw light on extinctions
The great white shark’s bite is nasty, but not as forceful as you might think
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STEPHEN WROE’S lab is no place to be alone in the dark. Propped against a wall is a massive set of jaws from a great white shark. On shelves above the desk are skulls that once belonged to other fearsome animals – a sabre-toothed cat, a clouded leopard, a “Tasmanian tiger”.
Despite their magnificence, what has drawn me to Wroe’s computational biomechanics lab at the University of New South…
