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We tend to associate dinosaurs with ground-shaking roars, but the latest research shows that this is probably mistaken.<\/div>\n
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You’d feel it more than hear it \u2013 a deep, visceral throb, emerging from somewhere beyond the thick foliage. Like the rumble of a foghorn, it would thrum in your ribcage and bristle the hairs on your neck. In the dense forests of the Cretaceous period, it would have been terrifying.<\/p>\n

We have few clues for what noises dinosaurs might have made while they ruled the Earth before being killed off 66 million years ago<\/a>. The remarkable stony remains uncovered by palaeontologists offer evidence of the physical prowess of these creatures, but not a great deal about how they interacted and communicated. Sound doesn’t fossilise, of course.<\/p>\n

From what we know about animal <\/a>behaviour<\/a>, however, dinosaurs were almost certainly not silent.<\/p>\n

Now with the help of new, rare fossils and advanced analysis techniques, scientists are starting to piece together some of the clues about how dinosaurs might have sounded.<\/p>\n

There is no single answer to this puzzle. Dinosaurs dominated the planet for around 179 million years<\/a> and during that time, evolved into an enormous array of different shapes and sizes. Some were tiny, like the diminutive Albinykus<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>which weighed under a kilogram (2.2lbs) and was probably less than 2ft (60cm) long. Others were among the biggest animals to have ever lived on land, such as the titanosaur Patagotitan mayorum, <\/em>which may have weighed up to 72 tonnes<\/a>.<\/em> They ran on two legs, or plodded on four. And along with these diverse body shapes, they would have produced an equally wide variety of noises.<\/p>\n

Some dinosaurs had greatly elongated necks \u2013 up to 16m (52ft) long in the largest sauropods<\/a> \u2013 which would have likely altered the sounds they produced<\/a> (think about what happens when a trombone is extended). Others had bizarre skull structures that, much like wind instruments<\/a>, could have amplified and altered the tone the animals produced. One such creature, a herbivorous hadrosaur named Parasaurolophus tubicen, <\/em>would have been responsible for the fearsome calls described at the start of this article.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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