bone-crushing

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Its long, shallow skull indicates it lacked the bone-crushing bite strength of T. rex.

From Science Daily • Oct. 24, 2025

Rather than the deep bone-crushing jaws of an adult T. rex, the lower jaw of the reservoir specimen looked more slender.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2024

Based on fossilized poop and gnawed bones, researchers know adults used their bone-crushing teeth to eat large plant-eating dinos the size of an African elephant, such as Triceratops and duck-billed dinosaurs.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

Paleontologists know little about what giant, bone-crushing tyrannosaurs were like as babies.

From Scientific American • Dec. 26, 2022

She holds our hand through even the most bone-crushing grips of pain like it’s nothing.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott