Lastly, killer whales have a bite force almost five times that of a great white shark, and they can kill large fish with a lash of their tail. These differences will define the fight.
Second in the world ranking of the most powerful jaws, just after the marine crocodile, the killer whale is well ahead of the bulldog shark (565kg/cm²) and the great white shark (300kg/cm²)! Also in the western part of the country, brown bears have a power of 800kg/cm².
Great whites are capable of producing a bite force of up to 4,000 psi. Their bite strength will depend on the size of the shark, as larger sharks make much more force. Great whites vary in size, with the largest reaching up to 20 feet long.
Scientists estimate the orca's bite force to be as much as 19,000 psi, which would make it greater than the crocodile's! The great white's formidable teeth mean it probably doesn't require much power, but with a bite force of around 4,000 psi, it's got nothing on the orca.
Both the great white shark and the killer whale or orca are fearsome top predators. But of the two massive animals, the killer whale may be the more formidable one, a new study has found.
Finally, is the king which is pushing bite force to extremes. At #1 we have Nile Crocodiles with a whopping 5,000 PSI bite. A person's bite strength clocks in on average at just 162 PSI which means the supreme force of Nile Crocodiles is 30 times stronger than ours!
With a jaw estimated to measure about 9 x 11 feet, scientists have calculated that megalodon's bite force would be about 40,000 pounds per square inch. Compare that to Tyrannosaurus rex, which had a bite force of 12,000 pounds per square inch, and it's clear you've got a mighty bite on your hands.
Do killer whales hunt sharks? Orcas are known to hunt great white sharks and only eat their livers. Yes, killer whales hunt sharks and whales much larger than they are when acting as a pack.
The megalodon had the strongest bite of any known animal, including T. rex. It probably had a bite up to 10 times stronger than a great white shark, which by some estimates has the most powerful bite of any living animal.
Orcas are apex predators, which means they're at the very top of the food chain and they have no predators. Killer whales are some of the largest and most powerful animals in the ocean, and no other predator is able to challenge them.
Hour after hour of small bite after small bite, the orcas would slowly whittle megalodon down. Still, if there were a single mistake, megalodon would easily dispatch the orca in a single bite, but another would always be there to take its place.
A lone sperm whale would kill an orca in a one-on-one fight.
Whale against Shark Who would win in a fight to the death? Although the great white shark has a fearsome reputation, in a straight fight it is outclassed by the orca. Not only are orcas much bigger, they are also smarter.
It has the strongest bite of any animal. Orcas are the reason why Nile and saltwater crocodiles are combined on this list because their bite force is thought to eclipse all of the other contenders for the strongest bite by such a wide margin. Orcas in captivity have a bite force of around 19,000 psi.
It's pretty much common wisdom that the top predator in the ocean is the great white shark (that is, if there isn't a remnant population of megalodon hidden somewhere in the deep).
Bremer Bay is located 5 hours south east of Perth, Western Australia in the pristine Great Southern. It is from this beautiful township we journey to the edge of the continental shelf to discover the oceans apex predator, the Bremer Bay Orca (Killer Whales).
Scientists have published findings confirming that orcas hunt great white sharks, after the marine mammal was captured on camera killing one of the world's largest sea predators.
Made of very strong and thick bone, dolphin snouts are biological battering rams. Dolphins will position themselves several yards under a shark and burst upwards jabbing their snout into the soft underbelly of the shark causing serious internal injuries.
Past megalodon research suggests these giant marine predators, which first appeared around 16 million years ago, could chomp with more than three times the force of T. rex, based on the new figures. The bite force of a megalodon—"just because it was so much larger-bodied—would have been bigger," Bates said.
Relative to body size, bull sharks bite harder than their larger relatives. Their bite force is greater than what is required to kill and eat prey. Bull shark. Research has revealed that bull sharks bite with almost 6,000N, a force that is greater than what is required to kill and eat prey.
The average human bite force is between 120-160 PSI (pounds per square inch).
Computers don't lie: T. Rex was shown to have a bite force of over 10,000 pounds per square inch, enough to bite through the head and frill of an adult Triceratops or even (just possibly) penetrate the armor of a full-grown Ankylosaurus.
Compare that to the bite force of an adult T. rex—about 35,000 newtons— or to the puny biting power of humans: 300 newtons.
The Tasmanian devil has the most powerful bite relative to body size of any living mammalian carnivore, exerting a force of 553 N (56.4 kgf).