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New Study Finds That Dinosaurs Didn't Roar, Possibly Quacked Like Ducks


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This is not a joke thread.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

I hope this study is wrong because it's totally ruining my childhood! I'm just picturing Jurassic Park with a quacking T-Rex chasing Lex and Tim. It's just not the same.

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2 minutes ago, Tywin et al. said:

This is not a joke thread.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

I hope this study is wrong because it's totally ruining my childhood! I'm just picturing Jurassic Park with a quacking T-Rex chasing Lex and Tim. It's just not the same.

oh jesus hahaha. That would make that film a comedy. I need to see someone edit a video clip of that happening now.

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I still think a giant, feathered, lipless, toothed ostrich/crocodile like creature with 15 cm teeth and making strange, guttural sounds would be equally terrifying as the roaring lizard-dinosaurs of the movies. More alien somehow. I bet that despite the duck comparison, it would have sounded nothing like a duck.

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17 hours ago, Tywin et al. said:

This is not a joke thread.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

I hope this study is wrong because it's totally ruining my childhood! I'm just picturing Jurassic Park with a quacking T-Rex chasing Lex and Tim. It's just not the same.

Dont fear, your childhood is still safe. Science! says so:

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Non-avian dinosaurs, such as the Tyrannosaurus rex, she added, would probably have had a larynx and most likely made loud booming sounds.

 

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12 hours ago, polishgenius said:

Another relevant xkcd.

I mean, he's not wrong. There's not a great deal of difference between Deinonychus and a cassowary.

That's true, and awesome. I especially love the point about how a T-Rex is closer-related to a sparrow than a Stegosaurus. I tend to forget how long the Mesozoic Era was, stretching from 252 to 66 million years ago. T-Rex was closer in time to us than to Stegosaurus.

It's a huge bummer that none of the dinosaur lineages outside of the bird branch of the theropods survived the K-T Extinction. If even only a handful of the Ornithischia lineages had survived the extinction, we might have had large quadrupedal dinosaurs emerge again (especially since they have an advantage in handling large size on land versus mammals). 

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On 2016-10-19 at 5:42 PM, Tywin et al. said:

This is not a joke thread.

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

http://nbc4i.com/2016/10/18/study-dinosaurs-didnt-roar-but-quacked-or-cooed/

I hope this study is wrong because it's totally ruining my childhood! I'm just picturing Jurassic Park with a quacking T-Rex chasing Lex and Tim. It's just not the same.

Or hissed like a goose, which is just as terrifying coming from something the size of a T-Rex.

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36 minutes ago, TrueMetis said:

which is just as terrifying coming from something the size of a T-Rex

Right?  Pretty sure a T-Rex could coo like a dove and it would scare the shit out of me.

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1 hour ago, The Mance said:

Right?  Pretty sure a T-Rex could coo like a dove and it would scare the shit out of me.

Honestly the WTF factor of that would probably make that far more terrifying than a roar.

Think of the scene from Jurassic Park when the T-rex is looking at the Lawyer and about to eat him, and imagine it making a noise somewhat like this. (if likely deeper)

Shit having watched that scene to check it does basically purr so this isn't that far different.

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