A topic I am very interested in, I shant say that I am an expert on the subject but it is something I know a fair bit about and enjoy a great deal.
I have been to a few dinosaur museums and lectures about them, seen jurassic park and its offspring several hundred times and read a whole pile of books about them and it is generally accepted now that some dinosaurs evolved in to birds, there is evidence that a great deal of Chinese dinosaurs actually had feathers and the bone structure of some dinosaurs is very similar to that of birds.
The question that popped in to my head as I lay trying to get to sleep the other night was would dinosaurs have sung like birds? (This was not a totally random thought, we had spent the day fossil hunting in Lyme Regis and I had also been to a dino museum, additionally there was a blackbird belting out the avian equivilant of "I will survive" right outside my window).
It is pretty much impossible to determine certain facts about the creatures, their colour for example, but I was wondering if any of you knew of any examples of fossils being found that indicated the kind of sound made by dinosaurs (there was a theory a few years ago that T Rex actually made a bubbling belching sound more than the gut twisting roar we'd imagine).
I just thought this was an interesting thought and next time I go to one of the lectures I'll try to snag the right bod and ask them what they think, it is kind of sweet to imagine dinosaurs singing like giant birds though it may only have been possible with the smaller species because with birds the larger they are the less finesse they have when calling...ostriches arn't particularly likely to win anything at the MTV awards tbh (though imo they would look better in a leotard than madonna).
I have been to a few dinosaur museums and lectures about them, seen jurassic park and its offspring several hundred times and read a whole pile of books about them and it is generally accepted now that some dinosaurs evolved in to birds, there is evidence that a great deal of Chinese dinosaurs actually had feathers and the bone structure of some dinosaurs is very similar to that of birds.
The question that popped in to my head as I lay trying to get to sleep the other night was would dinosaurs have sung like birds? (This was not a totally random thought, we had spent the day fossil hunting in Lyme Regis and I had also been to a dino museum, additionally there was a blackbird belting out the avian equivilant of "I will survive" right outside my window).
It is pretty much impossible to determine certain facts about the creatures, their colour for example, but I was wondering if any of you knew of any examples of fossils being found that indicated the kind of sound made by dinosaurs (there was a theory a few years ago that T Rex actually made a bubbling belching sound more than the gut twisting roar we'd imagine).
I just thought this was an interesting thought and next time I go to one of the lectures I'll try to snag the right bod and ask them what they think, it is kind of sweet to imagine dinosaurs singing like giant birds though it may only have been possible with the smaller species because with birds the larger they are the less finesse they have when calling...ostriches arn't particularly likely to win anything at the MTV awards tbh (though imo they would look better in a leotard than madonna).
