Sinister sound of Tyrannosaurus heard for first time

[dragon53]

Link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/sinister-sound-tyrannosaurus-rex-heard-190000528.html

[suspsy]

Interesting. Guess we'll have to watch the documentary.

[stargatedalek]

Typical Yahoo, eww.

Gotta love how they phrased it so as to imply Tyrannosaurus was more closely related to crocodiles than to birds, and how they don't have any links or audio clips or anything else to access this new sound reconstruction.

Assuming there even is a new audio clip, I'm not convinced that combining a bittern and an alligator is going to be anything special. Certainly better than the generic panther type roars we hear in Hollywood but I don't see why anything about that particular combination would be definitive, surely any number of calls morphed from any number of birds would be equally plausible.

[Faelrin]

Yeah that article was pretty bad (calling it T-Rex is one thing, aside from the typical uninformed stuff), but I'm not surprised. From skimming it through I'm not really surprised with what I'm seeing though, because this isn't the first time I've seen this low frequency thing mentioned. A quick trip to youtube, and looking up videos of crocodile and cassowary sounds gets the point across just as much. A bit disappointing it is still just a best guess and not something more like with the Parasaurolophus calls, but then again, that isn't surprising either, due to the lack of evidence for soft tissues and such at this point. So yeah while this is sort of interesting, it doesn't seem all that necessary either.

[ZoPteryx]

Sounds like an interesting documentary, but I agree that this sound isn't really anything to write home about, I feel like it's been done before.

Another article with the sound in the video:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/12/09/sinister-sound-tyrannosaurus-rex-heard-first-time-66-million/

[tyrantqueen]

Yuck, Chris Packham, no thanks.

[Neosodon]

Aside from any potential issues with the article I think the idea that T. rex would make a low pitched sound like that is plausible. Imagine being a dinosaur and feeling the vibrations of T. rex's footsteps and hearing that sound echoing back and forth through the the forest as a pack of T. rex's stalked you in the night.