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Jurassic Park: What Do Dinosaurs Sound Like?

There is very little fossil evidence of any kind of fossilized vocal structures from big dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex. So that has led scientists to hypothesize that maybe dinosaurs, you know, maybe, in fact, they didn't roar. Maybe they made sounds more like the closed mouth vocalizations of birds. And when I heard of like how a dove would coo, maybe imagine a Tyrannosaurus Rex with that closed mouth cooing sound. We've got a cooing or clucking sort of dinosaur. How glorious that would be. Exactly. That's amazing.

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