Talk:Reaper Leviathan/@comment-46442600-20200803203007

As an interesting observation, I don't think the mandibles could provide much force, at least not on an object as small as a seamoth. Given how the mandibles are in a less than 90 degree angle with the seamoth and prawn suit when grabbing them, folding its mandibles inward would not produce any force, only letting the vehicle go, and folding them outward would more than likely push it out of reach, thus eliminating its ability to produce a force on the vehicle. When I say folding them, imagine is if they're arms and using your biceps/triceps.

This leaves using the "upper arm's" movement to produce a force (as if using pectoral muscles). However, because the mandibles are located on the Reaper's relatively small head, just behind the jaw, no space is available for those "pectoral" muscles to be. There is no musculature on the upper or lower jaw, where we primarily might expect them to be, pictures of the Reaper's open jaw reavels the estimated location the jaw muscles (mastication muscles that is), being just behind the mandibles, leaving little space for other muscles.

Unless this creature has muscles going through and around his head, there is just about no way they should be able to crush a seamoth with those mandibles.