What Did Dinosaurs Sound Like?

Did they roar like they do in the movies?

By Riley Black
Mar 17, 2020 1:00 PMApr 27, 2020 1:17 AM
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We’re more than 66 million years too late to know what tyrannosaurs or triceratops sounded like. The fossil record just doesn’t preserve dinosaurs in enough detail to know what all of their organs looked like or how they functioned. The roars and bellows of the movies are, more often than not, mashups of living-animal sounds.

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