Parasaurolophus | The dinosaur that sounded eerily beautiful...

Today we're checking out the Parasaurolophus and how we know just how eerily beautiful it sounded...

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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:56 Discovery
01:26 Description
03:51 Environment
05:43 The sound this dinosaur made

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Cretaceous fish by Zubin Erik Dutta

[dino-gen]

Ok, guys I know it's a little hard to understand at times, I'm not sure why this video is worse for it than my others but what can I say? Can take the boy out of Essex but you can't take Essex out the worry, I'm working on it 😅 Hope you still enjoy and thank you for stopping by!

[TheLittleJotunn]

I think one thing we forget is to account for the mucus. Moisture can dramatically change sounds, so I'm hoping they can at some point make s reconstruction that takes this into account.

[ziggyzag]

I hear it daily. That’s the sound of my upstairs neighbour dragging his chair around his house 10 times a day

[andrewengel]

Very funny how the creature that was in prehistoric North America sounded like a semi truck

[bluerose]

Strange, I suddenly found myself mourning the loss of an animal gone for millions of years. I have always studied and been interested in dinosaurs. I never felt sad until I heard that sound. Thank you for the experience.

[Spnozilla]

There’s something hauntingly beautiful about hearing a reconstruction of what an extinct dinosaur sounds like. It’s almost like you’ve actually traveled back in time to when sounds like that were common place.

[aristoeldesarmado]

Dogs: *bark*
Cows: *Moo*
Parasaurolophus: *truck traffic jam*

[callusklaus]

I'm curious if that reconstruction was taking into account the unique acoustics of bone and cartilage. The recording sounded pretty metallic almost. I wonder how accounting for flesh and bone (if it wasn't already) would alter the sound

[alexiswilson]

Instructions unclear, several parasaurolophus heard the call and plowed through my living room. Unknown whether this is a response to a battle call or a threat.

[weirdredpanda]

I'll bet that there would have been soft tissue elements in the tubes that could have made a big impact on the sound. There could have even been flaps that the animals could open and close in different configurations to give a large variety of calls.

[BringThePizza]

The dinosaur call made my cat wake up. He looked at me rather concerned

[aeyelashbug]

I would want to hear sauropod noises. That insanely long neck and what must have been enormous lungs would certainly have made some very interesting sounds

[NAT-turners-Revenge]

Im 40yrs old.. between ages 6-11 i read every dinosaur book i could get my hand on. I went to places like the la brea tar pits. This video made me very happy to remember

[Prometheus]

This is how you know they are from a completely different branch removed from the tree. Creepy, almost like it’s something we aren’t supposed to hear

[audrei]

every dinosaur sound reconstruction sounds absolutely horrifying and I am so glad none of them are alive today, as much as their size and behavior puts me in awe

[honeyspice]

It would make sense for dinosaurs to have a more low tone and reverberation bc those travel longer.

[terminalpsychosis]

They had a HUGE dijeridoo in their head crest. That sound would travel for MILES.
Elephants communicate over long distances with deep pulses of sound, lower than our ears can hear.
These dinosaurs obviously could too. Those channels in the bone crest tell the story. It's an Alp Horn, made of bone.
Who knows what kind of control they had, but to develop such a complex structure, you can imagine the articulation was also extreme.

[incubustimelord]

That sound is very scary. It sounds similar to the horn noises from the Martian tripods in the 2005 movie of H.G. Wells' War Of The Worlds.

[marlenegalliot]

my cat has been very concerned all of a sudden, exactly when the dinosaur sound started. as it continued with more bass and width, she turned her head from left to right, then ran upstairs away from the sound. i didn't feel like running but i also was quite impressed

[socalmsofly]

Imagine how loud a whole horde of these would be...

Using sound to scare off predators is as old as time bro