Pound-for-pound, thats as if a supermodel had the bite of a T. Depending on the mega-piranha's weight, that force would range from nine to 50 times its weight. They found the mega-piranha would have packed a bite between 279 and 1,067 pounds-force (1,240 and 4,749 Newtons). They determined the black piranha's bite was so fearsome, because the jaw muscles connected the back of the jaw to the front, almost up to the front teeth, allowing the muscle force to be transferred more efficiently to the teeth, he said.īy extrapolating from the jaw structure and size of the black piranha to the mega-piranha, the team was able to reconstruct the bite of the extinct predator. Next, the team modeled the mechanical forces generated in the jaw. "When we started measuring the bites in these relatively, diminutive small little fish we were just blown away by how strong their bites were," he said.īlack piranhas weigh only 2 pounds on average, yet can generate 70 pounds of force. That powerful force allows the piranha to quickly bite whole chunks of flesh from animals as they pass by. The mighty jaws generated up to 72 pounds-force (320 Newtons), about 35 times its weight, he said. Grubich and his team captured piranhas from the Amazon and had them clamp down on a metal device that measured their bite force. Piranhas have even been known to bite off the toes of unwary human beach-goers, Grubich said. Though they weigh a mere 2 pounds (0.9 kg) on average, piranhas are notorious for their razor-sharp teeth, voracious hunger for meat, and their ability to swarm, and devour, prey much larger than them, such as the 6-foot-long (2.5 meters) arapaima fish. To understand how fearsome mega-piranha's bite was, they looked at its smaller, but no less fearsome relatives, the modern-day black piranha. "There no longer were prey resources available to sustain its body size." "You ended up with these isolated pockets, the habitat shrunk " Grubich told LiveScience. We’re the same team, we just got to continue to simplify when things get difficult, not complicate the game for ourselves.However, when the Andes Mountains rose, they separated the two basins, which scientists think caused mega-piranha to go extinct. “But we got to learn how to play with that, and that’s something we’re learning to do right now. We can feel that,” Tage Thompson said of the Sabres opening March in playoff contention in a bid to end an 11-year postseason drought. While the Predators bounced back, the Sabres had no answers following a 7-0 loss of their own to Boston on Sunday.īuffalo dropped to 1-6-2 in its past nine, and 1-5-1 in its past six home games, a stretch in which the Sabres have been outscored by a combined 37-18 - including a 10-4 loss to Dallas on March 9. The Predators opened the day in 10th, five points behind eighth-place Winnipeg. The win allowed Nashville (35-26-8) to keep pace in the race for the Western Conference’s final two wild-card playoff spots. Juuse Saros stopped 28 shots and even picked up an assist in beating the Sabres for the first time in seven career starts (1-5-1). Tommy Novak, Philip Tomasino and defenseman Ryan McDonagh - in his first game after missing four with an upper body injury - had a goal an assist each. “It shows a lot of character from our older guys all the way down to the youngest guy on the team.” “Pretty skinny roster, but we’ve got a lot of young guys that have come up and played really well,” said Matt Duchene, who scored twice and added an assist. The timeliness of the 21-year-old’s outburst in just his 11th NHL game was welcomed on an injury depleted Nashville team missing key veterans - Filip Forsberg, Ryan Johansen and Roman Josi - and seeking a response following a 7-0 drubbing at the New York Rangers on Sunday. He also added two assists to become the team’s first rookie to enjoy a four-point game since Dan Hamhuis had a goal and four assists in setting the franchise record in 2004. Luke Evangelista scored two goals in such quick succession, the Nashville Predators rookie joked it felt like they came on the same shift.Įvangelista’s goals came in a 39-second span as part of a four-goal second-period surge in which the Predators became the latest team to rout the reeling Buffalo Sabres in a 7-3 win on Tuesday night.
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