Did T. rex actually roar?

rex probably didn't roar, but most likely cooed, hooted, and made deep-throated booming sounds like the modern-day emu.
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How was the T Rex roar made?

According to the behind-the-scenes book The Making of Jurassic Park: An Adventure 65 million Years in the Making, the infamous roar of the T. rex was a composite mix of a baby elephant's squeal, and alligator's gurgle, and a tiger snarl.
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Did dinosaurs used to roar?

Not only did the dinosaurs look real, but they sounded real, each dinosaur having its own array of chirps, bellows, hoots, and roars. According to paleontologist Phil Senter, however, dinosaurs may not have been able to make any of these sounds.
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How do they know dinosaurs roared?

“Looking at the distribution of closed-mouth vocalization in birds that are alive today could tell us how dinosaurs vocalized,” said study author and University of Texas biologist Chad Eliason in a statement.
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What was the loudest dinosaur?

Mr. Mike concludes his series on the Hadrosaurs or Duck Billed Dinosaurs by talking about the loudest dinosaurs to have existed: Saurolophus, Parasaurolophus, Lambeosaurus and Corythosaurus, dinosaurs that used skin flaps or bony tubes to make sounds that could be heard from miles away.
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What Did The T-Rex REALLY Sound Like?



How loud would a Trex roar be?

As big and fierce as it was, did T. rex really need to emit 150-decibel roars to warn off others of its kind? Maybe, maybe not. But until science learns more about how dinosaurs communicated, that will have to remain a matter of speculation.
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What did dinosaurs actually sound like?

Animals produce closed-mouth vocalizations by inflating their esophagus (the tube that connects the throat and stomach) or tracheal pouches (pouches on their windpipe) while keeping their mouth closed, producing something comparable to a low-pitched swooshing, growling, or cooing sound.
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Did T. rex sound like duck?

The image of roaring reptilian lords of the earth is fading for more scientifically sound evidence. Everyone knows the sound of Jurassic Park's T-Rex roar, that horrifically effective combination of a baby elephant, alligator, and tiger.
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Did T. rex sound like a goose?

Scientists say they might have growled like a crocodile or honked like a goose. What sound did a dinosaur make? While you might imagine them screeching or roaring like they did in the Jurassic Park movies, scientists haven't been able to figure out the noises they actually made when they roamed the Earth.
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What is the sound of T. rex?

According to the bookThe Making of Jurassic Park: An Adventure 65 million Years in the Making, the T. rex roar from the film was a combination of a baby elephant's squeal, an alligator's gurgling, and a tiger's snarl. Its breath was the sound of air escaping a whale's blowhole.
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Is the cow in Jurassic Park real?

Jurassic World also used cattle as a food source, at least for the Indominus rex. However, it was not fed live animals. Instead, a crane was used to lower a skinned carcass (identified as a steer by Claire Dearing) into the paddock.
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How did they get the dinosaur noises in Jurassic Park?

The triceratops sounds were from dozens of cows from George Lucas' film site, Skywalker Ranch, where Rydstrom works. As for the unforgettable sound of the dying triceratops, though, Rydstrom turned to a simple, homemade device: a cardboard tube with a spring in it.
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How did they make Godzilla's roar?

It was Japanese composer Akira Ifukube who had the idea to use a musical instrument to create the shriek we all know. "It was actually a double bass, using a leather glove coated in pine-tar resin to create friction," Aadahl says. "They'd rub it against the string of the double bass to create that sound."
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Do dinosaurs Still Exist?

Other than birds, however, there is no scientific evidence that any dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Apatosaurus, Stegosaurus, or Triceratops, are still alive. These, and all other non-avian dinosaurs became extinct at least 65 million years ago at the end of the Cretaceous Period.
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Did T. rex likely have oily skin or dry skin?

rex of our favorite childhood movies may have not been too far from the truth. According to a study recently published in the journal Biology Letters, the T. rex's skin was likely scaly. An international team of researchers studied skin impressions taken from T.
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How did Jurassic Park make Velociraptor sounds?

If you're a dinosaur enthusiast, for sure you have already heard about this secret (that is not so secret!) from Steven Spielberg's 1993 classic film “Jurassic Park.” The sound effects used for the velociraptors in the movie were not recordings of enraged animals, but actually, two tortoises having sex.
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What was T Rex bite force?

Compare that to the bite force of an adult T. rex — about 35,000 newtons — or to the puny biting power of humans: 300 newtons. Previous bite force estimates for juvenile T.
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Who is the fastest dinosaur?

The speediest dinosaurs were the ostrich mimic ornithomimids, such as Dromiceiomimus, which could probably run at speeds of up to 60 kilometres per hour.
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Is Rexy bigger than sue?

Sue was the most complete Tyrannosaurus rex ever found. Sue is one of the largest Tyrannosaurus rex ever found.
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What Jurassic Park gets wrong?

According to Persons, the "Jurassic Park" T. rex also has broken wrists. The wrists of the T. rex in the 1993 movie, Persons said, are twisted unnaturally so that the animal's fingers point downward.
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Did T. rex have lips?

Reisz presented research supporting the idea that T. rex had lips (soft tissue that cover the mouth), contrary to the exposed rows of teeth that have traditionally been shown in science artwork and media for the last several decades.
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What is the scariest dinosaur?

We've seen some scary dinosaurs before, the T-Rex, Utahraptor and Jeholopterus all come to mind, but the newly discovered Heterodontosaur may be the scariest of all. It was a small, fanged dinosaur species that wandered around the toes of other dinosaurs.
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