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What the tyrannosaurus really sounded like


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On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 4:06 AM, Crows said:

Interesting, that low frequency vibrating tone is as equally scary, and it's funny how their traditional roar derives from elephants/tigers/lions, etc lol. I'll always stick with the 'No one really knows' philosophy, not even Dino's actual looks, so of course all's we can do is speculate.

...but that bad actor made a resinating chamber from a raptor with an old 3d printer! Im sure theres some real science behind that and has been / is being done to find the most acutate speculation

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I've seen the video before, but have a hard time believing when they said it's unlikely TRex's would have roared. For the simple fact that literally every creature has a type of "roar" when challenged over mating, land, food, or dominance.

21 hours ago, d1nk said:

but that bad actor made a resinating chamber from a raptor with an old 3d printer! Im sure theres some real science behind that and has been / is being done to find the most acutate speculation

Another thing like what was mentioned above about the 3D printer Raptor larynx... that was actually a real experiment done by a college student majoring in paleontology, not an actor. The larynx is actually held in that students college and has been classified by paleontologists as the closest we'll ever get to hearing a real raptor until cloning becomes 100% successful.

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23 minutes ago, DarthaNyan said:

but hawk's or any other bird's screech is a roar.

Animals such as mammals and some reptiles are able to roar due to their vocal folds/chords. (Similar concept to humans, speaking, but we don't move as much air, nor do we have vocal chords sufficient to match the volume of most animals also capable of roaring) The sound of a roar is a result of undulations caused by air passing over vocal folds. Lions and tigers and bears* have vocal chords that lend themselves to creating the loud guttural roar using little breath. They've got these large fatty vocal folds that are conducive to loud roars. Humans can roar, but we've got these lameass weak vocal chords. (Except Corey Taylor)

Birds, on the other hand, do not have vocal folds. Some birds can mimic the sounds of creatures with vocal folds (parrots, lyrebird, raven, etc...) but are unable to produce a roar because their vocalization game is weaksauce. This is why a bird call is called a screech (no vocal folds), and a lion call is called a roar (beefcake vocal folds). Dinosaurs, as far as science has told us thus far, did not have vocal folds. This means that the dinosaurs we're aware of, just like birds, are unable to roar. Just screech and squawk. 

*oh my!

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