Who’s Got the Baddest Bite?
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
According to the Discovery Channel, a big body helps, but the primary predictor for how hard a shark can bite is the width of its head. Who knew?
The top five hardest-biting sharks, based on this study and prior research, are:
1. Great White Shark
2. Great Hammerhead Shark
3. Bull Shark
4. Blacktip Shark
5. Horn Shark
The largest great white on record, which measured around 24 feet long, would’ve had a bite force of 9,320 Newton (i had to look that up… it means force) at the tip of its jaws and 18,216 N at the back of its jaws, where the leverage is higher.
Coincidentally, the hardest biters also had the sharpest teeth. Nice.
I’m sorry but are they being sarcastic when it states “who knew?” It makes all the sense in the world and people already knew that the larger the surface area or size of the mouth, the harder the bite….duh.
but i wouldn’t have guessed that the horn shark would be on that list.
um, have you seen how freakin wide a Tiger Shark head is…?