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Related: About this forumDinosaurs didn't roar. They hummed.
http://gizmodo.com/dinosaurs-more-likely-cooed-than-roared-1783475658Researchers from the University of Texas did a comprehensive review of the vocal organs of birds and the kinds of sounds they made. Then they matched those up with the vocal organs found in fossilized dinosaurs for a paper coming out next month in Evolution. The results, they say, suggest that many dinosaurs were far more likely to vocalize with a closed-mouthperhaps, a disapproving hmm or a more pensive ummthan with a full-throated roar.
Now, if you think that a bird cannot sound threatening...
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Dinosaurs didn't roar. They hummed. (Original Post)
DetlefK
Jul 2016
OP
Still deep, scary, and bestial. I remember recently not thinking about if dinosaurs roared and
MillennialDem
Jul 2016
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Night Watchman
(743 posts)1. "Raspberry Beret" by Prince, 1985
I'd bet on it!
bananas
(27,509 posts)7. Dinah Moe Hum by Zappa. nt
MillennialDem
(2,367 posts)2. Still deep, scary, and bestial. I remember recently not thinking about if dinosaurs roared and
coming across an article that said they almost certainly didn't and made humms and chirps. I thought about a t-rex making chirps that a tiny little bird makes (high pitched). I obviously knew that wasn't right.
This gives a better idea.
ashling
(25,771 posts)3. Imagine having the same tune stuck in your head
For 350 million years!
Warpy
(110,900 posts)4. Hooray! Another silly myth dispelled
along with the uniformly green lizard skins. We now know they sported proto plumage and were likely quite colorful.
BumRushDaShow
(127,288 posts)5. There are some YouTube videos with an example theorized sound
from one species (a Parasaurolophus) that they had a complete skull of and blew air through to do a simulation.
dembotoz
(16,737 posts)6. guess that was because they did not know the words
ok i will leave the science group now....
keithbvadu2
(36,362 posts)8. In horror movies, even the huge spiders sometimes roar.
Really cheap horror movies.
benld74
(9,888 posts)9. Only because they forgot the words