ArticleScientific reports2017
Bite force in the horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli) with implications for extinct giant frogs.
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- Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira).Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007) · 2026Article
- New perspectives on head and neck allometry and ecomorphology in tetrapods.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Uncovering Sexual Differences in the External Morphology, Appendicular Muscles, and Internal Organs of a Fossorial Narrow-Mouth Frog (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Sexual differences in bite force are not related to testosterone level in the wild-derived red junglefowl.Current zoology · 2025Article
- A bite force database of 654 insect species.Scientific data · 2024Article
- The radiation continuum and the evolution of frog diversity.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Strong positive allometry of bite force in leaf-cutter ants increases the range of cuttable plant tissues.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- A biomechanical model for the relation between bite force and mandibular opening angle in arthropods.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Clade-wide variation in bite-force performance is determined primarily by size, not ecology.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Evolution of hyperossification expands skull diversity in frogs.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020Article
- The Better to Eat You With: Bite Force in the Naked Mole-Rat (Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2019Article
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Abstract
Of the nearly 6,800 extant frog species, most have weak jaws that play only a minor role in prey capture. South American horned frogs (Ceratophrys) are a notable exception. Aggressive and able to consume vertebrates their own size, these "hopping heads" use a vice-like grip of their jaws to restrain and immobilize prey. Using a longitudinal experimental design, we quantified the ontogenetic profile of bite-force performance in post-metamorphic Ceratophrys cranwelli. Regression slopes indicate positive allometric scaling of bite force with reference to head and body size, results that concur with scaling patterns across a diversity of taxa, including fish and amniotes (lizards, tuatara, turtles, crocodylians, rodents). Our recovered scaling relationship suggests that exceptionally large individuals of a congener (C. aurita) and extinct giant frogs (Beelzebufo ampinga, Late Cretaceous of Madagascar) probably could bite with forces of 500 to 2200 N, comparable to medium to large-sized mammalian carnivores.
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