Allosaurus as a Jurassic headbanger

From Mexico City, at the 60th annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology

Being referred to as thickheaded isn’t exactly a compliment. Depending on your lifestyle, however, you just might need a skull that can occasionally take a good smack.

Consider a carnivorous dinosaur such as Allosaurus fragilis attacking and feeding on its prey. New research shows that the predator’s skull can resist stress many times higher than that expected merely from the dinosaur’s chewing on its victims.