The boys are back in town, and they're down at Dino's.
Posted on 05/24/2025 8:14:55 AM PDT by BenLurkin
There is no single answer to this puzzle. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for around 179 million years and during that time, evolved into an enormous array of different shapes and sizes. Some were tiny, like the diminutive Albinykus, which weighed under a kilogram (2.2lbs) and was probably less than 2ft (60cm) long. Others were among the biggest animals to have ever lived on land, such as the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum, which may have weighed up to 72 tonnes. They ran on two legs, or plodded on four. And along with these diverse body shapes, they would have produced an equally wide variety of noises.
Some dinosaurs had greatly elongated necks...which would have likely altered the sounds they produced (think about what happens when a trombone is extended). Others had bizarre skull structures that, much like wind instruments, could have amplified and altered the tone the animals produced. One such creature, a herbivorous hadrosaur named Parasaurolophus tubicen, would have been responsible for the fearsome calls described at the start of this article.
P. tubicen had an enormous crest almost 1m (3.2ft) long protruding from the back of its head. Inside this were three pairs of hollow tubes running from the nose to the top of the crest, where two of the pairs performed a U-bend to wind back down towards the base of the skull and the animal's airways. The other pair widened to form a large chamber near the top of the crest. In total they formed what was essentially a 2.9m (9.5ft) long resonating chamber.
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The closest analogues he can find in living animals today are the vibrating grunts of the southern cassowary, which lives in Australia. This flightless bird emits a series of deep bellows and growls that reverberate through the thick jungle where they live.
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Gilbert Gottfried
I think they sound like Pee-wee Herman….
Helen Thomas
Mostly sound like hand drills...
I know! Let’s clone them and find out!!!
What did dinosaurs sound like?
Like Dinosaur Media (aka BBS) with blinders and an audio amplifier.
Like chickens.
Yoko Ono
The boys are back in town, and they're down at Dino's.
LOL! I remember that one. That guy Gary Larson stepped on a gold mine with “The far side” and one day he just quit just like Bill Watterson who drew Calvin and Hobbes. Last I read Larson made $50 million from it. No WONDER he retired, incredible. Yeah Bernie Sanders and AOC, capitalism really sucks doesn’t it.
Thtega Thorith
“You can get an idea of how the dinosaurs sounded by watching “The View” or any Congressional hearing.”
ROFLMAOASTD
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Not sure what they sounded like, but when the meteor struck the Yucatan peninsula, you could see many of them turn, look, and then say: “What the f... was that?”
Sounds like my Ex waking up in the morning. Talk about bad breath...
You gotta love Sen. Kennedy’s comment on AOC:
“I understand AOC is the voice of the Democrat party. I also know she’s the reason there are instructions on shampoo bottles.”
I always thought some sounded like English gentlemen.
Like Ghetto Bitchs
I live not very far from a fairly dense forest, and once I heard, down in there, what seemed to me to be a extremely furious T-Rex.
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