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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Ebonics
Ask Nanzi Pelosi. 😃
Some of ‘em, probably. I’m thinking a lot of unpleasant hissing sounds, of varying volume.
You can get an idea of how the dinosaurs sounded by watching “The View” or any Congressional hearing.
I know what dinosaurs currently sound like when I mash down on the Go Fast peddle of my IC vehicle.
Cassowary sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4AxsrZHF_k
Mike Tyson.
There was an episode of Friends where Ross performed the sound of a dinosaur as the teacher of his class. That was pretty definitive.
Dino-sewers make the best prehistoric clothes
If you are close enough to hear them, you are too close.
Democrat leadership?
I would hope they sounded like dog toy screaming chickens.
I never watched Fiends.
You’d think a search for “pirate rubber chicken dog toy” would take you right to a specific model, but the world has gotten very complicated. Lots of pirate rubber chickens out there.
Just listen to The View ... I mean The Sty sometime and you will know.
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