How to Control a Brachiasaurus's Hiss

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The primary nerves that run the vocal muscles and your lax in your voice box, run down your neck, into your trunk and then back up your neck toge larynx. If you're a brachiasaurus with this super long neck, you got a real problem. There's no way they could control this elephant kind of voice. The best they could do was basically just push air out their mouths.

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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