What did the dinosaur roar look like? The answer to this question is unlikely because it is not possible to capture the sounds of the past. In addition, the sound-producing structures of these animals are generally “soft tissues or less flexible hard tissues”Paleontologist Michael Habib explained this in an episode of the Unexplained podcast. In short, muscles and cartilage do not fossilize.
The most we can get right now is that scary roar. Tyrannosaurus rex of the movie Jurassic ParkIt is probably unrealistic as it is a mixture of many animals such as tiger, lion, koala, donkey, dolphin and elephant. All this except for a voice from the group sauropsidaThey turned into reptiles and birds.
When we encounter scientific evidence t. rex A sound designer can never look like a donkey Jurassic ParkGary Rydstrom, who also did the sounds indiana jones This terminatorHe gave a very clear answer: — “It’s a movie,” he recalled.
Why develop theories about the sounds made by dinosaurs?
According to podcast host Noam Hassenfeld, the scientists he spoke with agreed that understanding what dinosaurs sounded like is an important issue. Sound reveals not only how ancient animals communicated, but also how they moved and lived.
Habib says one way to discover what a dinosaur’s true voice would be like is to analyze its still-living descendants. For example, crocodiles make low sounds. T. rex perhaps it was at the end of the Cretaceous. However, in this case, the dinosaur would not be able to open its mouth because crocodiles snore deeply with their mouths closed.
In December 2017, paleontologist Julia Clarke demonstrated this frightening sound. BBCto simulate what an alligator is like by reducing the distant sound of the alligator T. rex it could make noise (see video above).
What was the sound after all? T. rex?
Reconstruction of the T-Rex’s voice based on a voice-over study by Sandia National Laboratories pic.twitter.com/uK0QDtpVeJ
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Although alligators are a good starting point for simulating outside sounds T. rexIt’s worth remembering that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs, says Clarke. This adds an even more frightening truth: Because birds have a unique vocal organ: Syrinx.It is located deep in the chest, close to the heart.
If scientists were one day to confirm that dinosaurs had syrinxes, it would expand the possibilities of sound, because this organ has two openings: theoretically allowing the dinosaurs to sing a kind of duet with themselves, says Habib.
In this effort, scientists from Sandia National Laboratories in the USA and the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science tried to recreate what dinosaurs did 75 million years ago. reproduced terrible low frequency sound T. rex, using computed tomography and powerful computers. The result was published on the X social network and received more than 9 million views (listens).
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