These changes separate the reptiles from the amphibians. #1, the evolution of stronger, more effective jaw mechanisms, is the subject of this lecture and one topic in last week’s lab. The other ...
So, we think that the less mechanically demanding diet at Formby led to a change in the skull and jaw anatomy of the red squirrels. This change was then partially reversed when supplementary ...
To do this we needed to find out how much force the jaw muscles could create. We worked out how much muscle you can fit into the skull of our Temnodontosaurus using a combination of CT scanning to ...