Did dinosaurs actually roar? Well, Scientists say “Probably not”.
Palaeontologists do know that dinosaurs did communicate with each other. Like birds and reptiles (their closest living relatives), they probably made noises to signal mating or danger. Babies could have also made sounds to let adults know they needed food or were in trouble.
In 2013, a team of scientists discovered a fossil in Antarctica which has the oldest known representation of a voice box ever discovered. From there, the team figured out what sound its anatomy could make. This animal would have made sounds most similar to those of living ducks and geese. So, maybe dinosaurs wouldn’t have been as scary as we first thought!
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