I was just sitting here and for some reason dinosaurs popped into my head and I started to wonder how we know what they actually sounded like. I mean you always hear kids making noises depicting raptors or even movies with dinosaurs making the same noises. Anyone know?
we cant actualy do this but in one of the jurassic park movies they used computers and shit to reconstitute the vocal systems of a raptor that gave them a kind of horn thing that they would blow through and that made a sound they used to comunicate with the raptors this dosnt really answer your question but your question reminded me of this
well in jurassic park 3 (not that good of a movie IMO) they scanned that part of the velociraptor and made a model or whatever and when dr grant blew thru it, it made a noise like a raptor. Im pretty sure that wouldnt work in real life tho, but who knows. sorry if i didnt explain that very well im a lil fucked up right now. but yeah wouldnt it be hilarious if a t-rex actually just barked like a dog or something? -edit- damn, beaten on the JP3 thing haha
Science. Some eggheads study this shit and based on shit like the shape of the skull and some other biological bullshit they imagine what it might have sounded like.
They made up Godzilla's original noise by rubbing a rubber glove on a rubber-band and listening to the reverberations, and then tweaking them. So my bet is that Dinosaur noises probably got made up by something just as abstract. Someone probably heard their cat yacking up a furball and thought to themselves, "Based on acoustics alone, it would seem as though I'm in the mystical time before mammals walked the earth, because that noise cannot be interpreted in any other way than what a Dinosaur would sound like." I bet'cha.
Don't mind the details. You get what I'm saying. But then again, it could be based on their necks and/or skulls and/or mouth structure, lung capacity, size of muscles in certain areas, to determine vocal chord size/strength, and determine what they sounded like from there.
You know Tyrannosaurus rex are related to chickens, i shit you not. They prolly sounded like overgrow savage ass birds just squawking/roaring at you from across the jungle. I'd be one scared little dinosaur
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