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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2026 Oct 24.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Biol. 2025 Aug 4;35(15):3664–3673.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.06.051

Figure 3. Theropod skull lengths versus von Mises stresses at actual size.

Figure 3

Cranial lengths plotted against mesh-weighted mean cranial von Mises stresses (A), mean mandible von Mises stress (B), mean cranial maximum principal strain (C), and mean mandible principal strain for each theropod dinosaur at actual size (D). Herrerasaurus is not included in (C) and (D) due to its high values. Skull lengths in cm. Note that strain is a unitless quantity. Theropod silhouettes from PhyloPic by Scott Hartman.