A new study suggests that the key to a stronger bite for dinosaurs is all in the eyes.
has more recently been used to determine species’ ability to see, and therefore remain active, in the dark.
Now, paleontologists have scrutinized dinosaur eyes once again and found something surprising. While most of these creatures had circular eye sockets, large predators such ashad a wider variety of eye shapes, including elliptical, keyhole or figure-of-eight sockets, which would’ve cushioned the impact of their bite as they captured and chewed their prey.
Moreover, the research revealed that the eyes of these dinosaur predators remained rather small in comparison to their plant-loving counterparts. “In these species, just the upper part of the eye socket was actually occupied by the eyeball,” Lautenschlager says in a press release. "This also led to a relative reduction of eye size compared with skull size.
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