Strongest Bite Force Animals

Bite force is recorded in PSI at the tips of the jaws. Direct measurements use force transducers placed between the jaws of live, unanaesthetised specimens. Where that's impractical, as with large crocodilians or free-ranging sharks, values come from finite-element skull models built from jaw muscle cross-section data.

Only 9 of 48 species in this dataset have a confirmed PSI figure. Animals that crush bone, crack shells, or grip large struggling prey generate the highest forces and tend to attract the most measurement research. All others appear unranked below.