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Brett Smith for redOrbit.com –  Your Universe Online Bite force allows animals to properly ingest food, making jaw mechanics very important -- especially for predators. A new study in the journal Biology Letters from biologists at Brown University has found an animal’s bite force depends upon the size of the thing the animal is eating. “Everybody measures bite force as one value,” said study co-author Nicholas Gidmark, a postdoctoral researcher at Brown. “There’s a lot...