Finding the Equivalent of a Fossilized Rumble

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Palaeontologist michael habib says finding the equivalent of a fossilized roar is just absurdly difficult. The primary challenge in reconstructing sound is that most of the sound produce structures are soft tissues, or less resilient, hard tissues. It's muscle and cartilage, and those tend not to fossilize.

They probably didn’t roar like lions. Their real voices were likely much, much weirder. We asked scientists to help us recreate these strange, extinct sounds.

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