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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention that they wouldn't have addressed them by the names we gave them after they went extinct.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Back then they pronounced the P

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

It still is in German! But we use K instead of C in this case, so true, if they spoke German it would be a Pterodaktylus

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Isn't this just the premise of the secret Hitler board game?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I thought those were Rammstein lyrics.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

For all I know, that's just two metal bands saying hi.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Didn't someone blow into a parasaurolophus crest and it went "toot" or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Bad German! You can't lebensraum here. Back to Bonn.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

After seeing Bonn and Berlin I must say they both suck. Should have made Duisburg the capital.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There are many decades between use of this font and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. This post is a typographical disaster.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I will always know pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs. Not because i know the difference, but because i have a lil nephew.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO6DGWsW6Pc

I have this song memorized. Not by choice mind you. Watch at your own risk

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Random thought prompted by this thread...

So birds are basically just tiny descendants of dinosaurs, right? Parrots, corvids, and a few others are capable of mimicry.... were there any dinos that shared that trait?

 

Dude from Jurassic Park: "Clever girl..."

Raptor: "CLEVER GIRL! raptor bark sound thing CLEVER GIRL!" eats his face

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think i read somewhere that velociraptors were about as smart as a dog. Convergent evolution, because both are group-hunting predators.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So are dolphins (group hunting predators). Pretty sure they rank a lot higher than a dog on the intelligence scale.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

But they rank lower on the good boy scale so it evens out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Annihilation flashbacks...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

"What the hell are you?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

bear in mind that birds are a specific branch of dinosaurs, closest related to stuff like velociraptor.

so it's a pretty good bet that raptors would make bird-like noises (though probably less complex and lower pitched), but doubtful that a stegosaurus would sound anything like a bird.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Idk man there are some birds that don't even sound like birds.

Imagine a dinosaur sized shoebill snapping it's beak.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

If only! Imagine a gigantic stegosaurus or triceratops tweeting away sweetly like a song bird.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've always imagined that they sound like angry chickens or geese.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yeah, we have chickens running around where I live, and those mfers can really sound creepy as fuck. That sort of muted muffled gutteral shriek thing they do? That's never mentioned in children's farm animals books...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

All geese are angry geese.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I mean, technically angry chickens (and non-angry ones) and geese are dinosaurs. More than the ones mentioned in the post.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is besides the fact that we kinda do. There’s a lot of caveats there, though, They’ve been scanning what they think is their vocal organs, generating 3d meshes and printing them out.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Scientiats were able to make one sound. Ahh!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I mean... I 3d printed the model in TPU... it kinda sounded like a squeaky fart.

Granted, I'm not a scientist, and I'm pretty sure the sound is going to be affected by material and stuff. but it sounded like a squeaky fart.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The last thing you hear before becoming one

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

naw. The mummy vocal chords are creepy.

Dino vocal...er... do they even have vocal chords?... My nephew was in a dinosaur phase. (still is, to be honest. there's 3 phases I never grew out of, if I'm any indication- dinosaurs, jumping-in-mud-puddles and robots. despite my SiL's protests... I think I'm a great influence.)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Birds have syrinxs, they don't really work the same:

https://youtu.be/cOvecLP81BA?si=fZo5tmgRVsPx2uEU

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Playing that for my niece, just as soon as they come over (probably this weekend.)

You know that scene in Serenity (aka firefly,)? I may resemble that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

When I was a kid, I had a dinosaur book that suggested Eryops probably sounded like a Buick. I have no idea if they meant the horn or the engine. One of those odd "facts" that sticks with you, though.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

Was geht, Brontobro

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