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From NPR podcast. Didn't see a thread.

New studies prove that dinosaurs may not have roared in their days on the earth. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to paleontologist Julia Clarke about her new discovery — the cooing sounds of dinosaurs.

Linda Wertheimer, Host:

That is the familiar sound of a dinosaur roar - well, at least that's what Hollywood has led us to believe over the years. But what if a dinosaur actually sounded like this?

Wertheimer: According to new research, that cooing is much more likely what a dinosaur sounded like. Julia Clarke is a professor of paleontology and the lead author of a new study that may debunk the dinosaur's roar. She joins me now from KUT in Austin, Texas. Welcome to our program.

Julia Clarke: It's my pleasure.

Wertheimer: We've been going on the assumption - I suppose largely from movies - that dinosaurs made a big noise. They're such big creatures. Why do you think we're wrong.

Clarke: Most dinosaur sounds are based on models that are more like lions and tigers and bears. And we know that the two groups of animals alive today that are most closely related to extinct dinosaurs are birds and crocodilians. In fact, birds are living dinosaurs.

Wertheimer: So you look at the way birds make noises?

Clarke: Exactly. That's what we did in this particular study. We looked at one aspect of vocal behavior, which is whether the mouth is open or closed. And we looked at living dinosaurs - birds. We have 10,000 species today. Most of them vocalize, sing with an open mouth. But some birds produce sound with a closed mouth. They actually inflate different structures that allow them to resonate, often at lower frequencies than many other birds. But we also needed to look at alligators and crocodiles as the closest cousins to dinosaurs.

Wertheimer: Well, I have actually heard alligators bellow and make a terrific noise.

Clarke: Well, exactly, and that bellow is a closed-mouth sound. So when we think of our T. rex, we don't need to imagine just simple cooing. But there are a variety of generally low frequency sounds that are produced in this way.

 

[John Kowalski]

meow

 

[SenorArdilla]

Tweet.

 

[Genryu]

"Stop making Dinosaurs not as cool as they were in Jurassic Park."

 

[Volimar]

Why do scientists have to ruin everything?

 

[ascii42]

Cacaw Cacaw. Tookie Tookie.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

Hahahrawrrahaha

 

[stressboy]

First they gave them feathers, and now they are taking away their roar??

Fuck you, paleontologists!!!11

 

[ascii42]

"Stop making Dinosaurs not as cool as they were in Jurassic Park."

Jurassic Park dinosaurs could roar because, um...frog DNA.

 

[turmoil]

science stop killing dinosaurs pls

Spoiler

pretty cool finding

 

[SpaceWolf]

Dinosaurs slowly getting emasculated.

In a hundred years, future generations will be wondering what the hell Alan Grant was so scared of in Jurassic Park.

 

[.JayZii]

So just lots of this, but louder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4t6Fv8GWo

Still cool.

 

[Juicy Bob]

Eh. I'd rather my idea of dinosaurs be goofy but accurate rather than badass and wrong.

 

[echoshifting]

If Alan Grant were a real paleontologist this never would have happened.

 

[asagami_]

So Ross was right?

 

[cdyhybrid]

Of course. How many times have you heard a bird or crocodilian roar? They probably chirped and hissed.

 

[Dennis]

So feathers and tweeting. That is a bird, Jim.

 

[YianGaruga]

I have a strange affection for large cute birds so these new dinosaurs sound awesome to me.

Tweet.

This is literally the cutest thing

 

[chadskin]

Small Hands T-Rex couldn't even roar. Sad!

 

[Kurdel]

Makes sense.

 

[830920]

Has science gone too far?

 

[orochi91]

They'd probably sound like this:

Pretty terrifying.

Seriously, 34 seconds of what some therapods probably sounded like, it's awesome stuff.

 

[Falchion]

Good thing facts don't matter. Stay roaring dinos.

 

[strafer]

Ending ruined

 

[Jack Scofield]

So just lots of this, but louder:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul4t6Fv8GWo

Still cool.

That sound at :26 sounds like someone taking a shit.

 

[brandonh83]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

 

[SatoAilDarko]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

Yes.

 

[User Name Here]

Screw this study. #TeamRoaringLizards

 

[YianGaruga]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

more than ever

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

Goddammit science stop ruining science for me.

 

[the_sun_king]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

They made more than one and 3/4 of those movies?

Spoiler

Shhh, lemme pretend.

 

[GK86]

So Ross was right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyLOoyWMuEI

 

[bananafactory]

Dinosaurs keep taking Ls

 

[SpaceWolf]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

The tag. My god.

 

[Skii]

So glad Jurassic Park came out before all these uncool revelations. Imagine a big chicken being the mascot of such a treasured franchise.

 

[Madness]

New research debunks the dinosaur's roar

New studies prove that dinosaurs may not have roared...

According to new research...

...lead author of a new study that may debunk the dinosaur's roar

🤔

 

[cdyhybrid]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

Abso-fucking-lutely.

 

[jiggle]

I hope there's a way to prove they taste like chicken

 

[brandonh83]

The tag. My god.

What does that have anything to do with my joke?

 

[Azuran]

Science continues to ruin everything.

I can take the feathers but this is just too much for me.

Edit:

Listen to this and tell me you don't want to hear that in a theater.

Those sound way more menacing than the dinosaurs in Jurassic park, lol

I take it back. This is the coolest shit ever.

 

[Tempy]

Still sounds pretty scary - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hye31i3cUI

Guess there's just no Jurassic Park/Godzilla roar.

 

[orochi91]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

Listen to this and tell me you don't want to hear that in a theater.

Those sound way more menacing than the dinosaurs in Jurassic park, lol

 

[Version 3.0]

Makes sense. Birds make some awesome sounds, though. No reason to fret.

Also: long story short: bipedal dinosaurs are just big, usually toothy birds. Is it really surprising every time we find out they have another bird-like feature?


edit:

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

Let me add one more "yes, please". The accuracy (at the time) was perhaps the greatest thing about it, especially the book. Dinosaurs have only gotten more fascinating since then.

 

[SpaceWolf]

What does that have anything to do with my joke?

Because it helped to compliment it.

 

[brandonh83]

Listen to this and tell me you don't want to hear that in a theater.

Those sound way more menacing than the dinosaurs in Jurassic park, lol

I guess I didn't make my original post blatant enough

Because it helped to compliment it.

Not really. Don't see how.

 

[Tagyhag]

I mean, if they bellow like alligators that's still cool too.

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Do you guys still want Jurassic Park movies to be 100% scientifically accurate

Considering that literally every dinosaur in every Jurassic Park movie/book is canonically a genetic chimera, not a 1:1 restoration, we really can't say they aren't accurate anyway. Checkmate, science.

Spoiler

Though obtaining 65 million year old DNA is still impossible without a time machine.

 

[GK86]

🤔

They put the 'may' in there as to give dino lizards fans hope.

 

[plasmawave]

Stop making my dinosaurs kawaii.

 

[Robot Pants]

Stop ruining my dinosaurs