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Wednesday, 21 December 2022
The mysterious song of the dinosaurs
Dinosaurs almost certainly didn’t roar. Researchers have yet to find any fossilised evidence of sound-producing organs like those of modern birds or mammals, so
Tyrannosaurus rex
probably resorted to closed-mouth vocalisation — low-frequency sounds that are made by inflating the throat. Computer simulations of a hadrosaur’s hollow head-crest showed that it could double as a resonating chamber.
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