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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0:00 Intro
0:56 Discovery
01:26 Description
03:51 Environment
05:43 The sound this dinosaur made
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[@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 boy.....don't worry, I'm working on it 😅 Hope you still enjoy and thank you for stopping by!

[@Fantafaust]

I thought you sounded fine, and I'm American 🤷

[@chrystalriver570]

the titel is a complete lie, multiple universities have recreated the exact sounds of trex, parasaures,raptors, and a good chunk of ceratops. weve researched this subject hard core. and its not like this isn't common knowledge in the paleontology community.

[@Fantafaust]

@chrystalriver570 you'll forgive me if I take the word of the youtuber who made a very professional video, over some guy in the comments that can't even spell.

[@BlommaBaumbart]

Because you mumble. It's not the accent, it's that for us to understand your accent you need to enunciate your accent clearly and not slur words in a hurry or get quieter towards the end of a sentence. I, a non-native speaker, have never heard Essex accent before this video in my life, but I had no problem understanding you when you actually spoke up. You don't need to speak like a BBC host, you need to speak like an Essex boy who hosts a video instead of like an Essex boy who talks to his mates on the bus. If you think that you actually did that, you dearly need to get a less muffled microphone. Sounds like you got the wrong end of Shure, completely dead top end. But top end is where "easy to understand" sits.

[@BlommaBaumbart]

@@Fantafaust That's an idiotic take on credibility and a first class way to become a carrier for propaganda.

[@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.

[@Kurouno]

yes! Right now its very good, but feels mechanic, robotic even

[@adrianjamesdelfin7414]

Elephants *are* a good example of that, huh.

[@nilsniemeier5345]

Not just moisture, but soft tissues, too.

[@Kurouno]

@@nilsniemeier5345I bet they are.... Moist 💦

[@modtyrant1784]

Wow i just made a comment about that, awesome!

[@andrewengel3023]

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

[@KhorneyFishRawrFearMeh]

Imagine totalling your car hitting one of them it's like hitting a semi lol

[@xeio1122]

Honking at a herd blocking the road then they honk back

[@motorola9956]

​@@xeio1122exactly, honkers

[@happyandblessed5640]

Yep! 😅😅😅😅

[@phoenixdonner8553]

I think it would sound a bit more natural in person. I imagine they just picked some sequence of air pressures to play through the simulation. The real dinosaur would have most likely alternated the air pressure in more complex ways to produce far more organic sounds. Like how we alter the sound of our voice when taking by moving parts of our mouth.

[@ziggyzag7864]

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

[@Arge-xv5ck]

😂😂

[@AlisonBryen]

Same! there's a restaurant above our office, and they're forever dragging tables across the floor instead of lifting and carrying them.

[@edstar83]

Long live detached dwellings.

[@johnconstantine7442]

your neighbor is a dinosaur

[@cheyenneweston478]

every upstairs neighbor ever. dont forget vacuuming at 8am in the morning or at night around 10 for some reason

[@bluerose11]

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.

[@niamtxiv]

Awww 😢

[@HisSweetheartRejectedOne]

I can totally understand that.

[@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.

[@nullofthenull]

I do not say this with malice, but you have a weird channel.

[@halbronco7690]

we're really just naturally occurring machines

[@Tool970]

Indeedm no offence good sir, but your video channel is quite quaint if I do say so myself

[@nullofthenull]

@@Tool970 lol

[@robcanisto8635]

you can get the same feeling watching old nature documentaries lol. stuff going extinct left and right. hell yeah climate change

[@Prometheus8164]

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

[@SatanenPerkele]

Of course we aren't supposed to hear how something that lived before humans even existed sounded like.

[@Prometheus8164]

​@@SatanenPerkele way to take the comment way too literally

[@SatanenPerkele]

@@Prometheus8164 What else do you mean?

[@user-tf8cj7kf1w]

The thing is that we aren’t supposed to hear this

[@theseus1362]

I think we are not supposed to hear it since we have yet to fully figure out how they would sound

[@aristoeldesarmado]

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

[@socalmsofly]

Imagine how loud a whole horde of these would be... Using sound to scare off predators is as old as time bro

[@evelynwaugh4053]

Bears have learned that bear bells indicate tender and tasty humans are present. Even primitive creatures learn cause and effect. Noise might scare a creature that had never before heard the noise, but it wouldn't be an effective deterrent more than once.

[@rustyhowe3907]

@@evelynwaugh4053 It makes me wonder if these dinos then could imitate or create entirely new sounds to hide their presence. Because as you said if a walking orchestra of edible trombones is around then it's not a good thing. Kinda like when tigers imitate prey animals to get closer, in this case it would the reverse.

[@callusklaus2413]

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

[@oscarlemstra9740]

I was wondering that also, maybe the sound would be less metallic.

[@shorelinefishing9213]

Yeah take the shoebird storm for example it makes a range of sounds but it sounds far more “wooden” if u will due to tissue and its beak

[@oscarlemstra9740]

@@shorelinefishing9213 you mean that sound he makes with his beak? I only can vind videos where it makes sound with clapping his beaks together

[@oscarlemstra9740]

@@shorelinefishing9213 ow, now i hear it indeed

[@Skrunkly_Velvet_Worm]

Also don’t forget mucus and moisture

[@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.

[@sadepennbrook]

Yep! Very good observation. I have a feeling it might actually have been completely different than what we just heard.

[@Divig]

If this is the same sounds as from the CT-scan and computer simulation from 1997 they did. "Since it’s uncertain whether the Parasaurolophus had vocal cords, a variation of sounds with and without vocal cords was simulated." Google Digital paleontology: Producing the sound of the Parasaurolophus dinosaur

[@weirdredpanda]

@@Divig Is that on KZbin? If so, do you know the name or have the link?

[@Divig]

@@weirdredpanda haha, no it is not a video. It is a old article/press release with old sound clips If you google it will be the first result. I am ot sure if I can post a link. I can make a second post with the link to try.

[@Divig]

www.sandia.gov/labnews/1997/12/19/dinosaur-story/

[@viccolasvic9461]

There were so many subspecies of hadrosaur it makes sense that they would want to be able to identify others of their species by the sound they make. Each hadrosaur probably had a completely different call.

[@shorelinefishing9213]

Species* not “subspecies” hadrosaur is a family of different species of dinosaurs within the family “Hadrosauridae“. Just like Felidae is a family of cats (from tigers to the domesticated house cat) Parasaurolophus by itself Isn’t even technically just a “species” it’s a genus which means there’s multiple species of it as well. But yeah they all made different sounds most likely :D.

[@coffinmyface4237]

​@@shorelinefishing9213 people love using species as a catch all term, it's annoying but most people just read pop science

[@shorelinefishing9213]

@@coffinmyface4237 oh i get it and i probably wouldn’t have said anything if he didn’t write “subspecies”lol subspecies is just the same species but slightly different traits like bengal tiger vs Siberian. Sorry if it comes off rude that wasn’t my intention. Just a fellow dinosaur nerd trying to clarify :D

[@coffinmyface4237]

@@shorelinefishing9213 oh I know, it irks me too and sometimes you want to just want to go off on a nerd rage but you always gotta remember that for most people they don't view ancient species as worth their time.

[@francesmmitchell]

Maybe even accents too? I think tuis here in nz (a kind of bird) might have them depending on their location but not 100% sure. They apparently also learn and perfect their calls as they get older, so they practice and get better at singing. Whales apparently also have 'top 40' songs that develop over time and go in and out of fashion, perhaps even mimicking each other the way humans do copies of each others songs. I think I read that somewhere but now that I'm typing it I realise I sound insane and highly recommend fact checking before you quote me on any and all points made here 😅

[@audrei679]

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

[@Tank50us]

Well, keep in mind that much of these sounds are missing things like the equivalent of vocal cords which would regulate the airflow and change the sound we hear. They'd likely have sounds for a wide variety of purposes. One can indicate availability to mate, another to answer a challenge for dominance, or even one to signal danger.

[@aeyelashbug6311]

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

[@weirdredpanda]

It might have been too low for our ears to hear.

[@aeyelashbug6311]

@weirdredpanda They would definitely use infrasounds too but I can't imagine that being the only form of communication

[@weirdredpanda]

@@aeyelashbug6311 You're probably right. Elephants do that.

[@GenericDan]

Or maybe no sound at all. Look at giraffes.

[@NyraBrowniez]

​@@GenericDangiraffes do make sounds just not often.

[@honeyspice8989]

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

[@grayokay]

the bigger the animal, the lower the tone so youre right

[@honey-po9ij]

​@@grayokay well, usually. whales and dolphins for example don't really follow that. if environmental pressures are right, there can be large animals with ears that can hear high pitched noises and the ability to produce them

[@grayokay]

yes but isnt that because sound travels better in water@@honey-po9ij

[@thedirectorschair1054]

@@grayokay Remember Star Trek 4 and how the whale probe sounds made no sense because they were too high pitched until Spock translates them as to how they would sound underwater.

[@kingcosworth2643]

That all depends on their social structure.

[@alexiswilson4186]

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.

[@emperorpaws8447]

the sound is just perfect for the setting, imagine yourself in prehistoric cretaceous floras and jungles and you hear this sound go off in the distance, reverberating the ground around you, it's haunting yet fits soo perfectly.

[@incubustimelord5947]

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.

[@jesseteixeira6284]

"Here they once ruled in ages past...and here they shall reign again."

[@antichrist8543]

Love this comparison, as a long time War of the Worlds fan I guess it adds up why one of my fav Hadros is a Parasaurolophus lol

[@martinsonneborn6820]

More like a foghorn in the distance

[@urgae9125]

The descending trills of the final calls remind me of a violin, or a desk scraping against the ground from when I was a student lol. It’s very fascinating, the main calling trumpets sounding like a broken, but still functional, organ, or some other large instrument that uses brass, possibly woodwinds.

[@Togawaa]

I thought I was the only one for found it similar!

[@hcollins9941]

Interestingly enough, some recent studies on the size estimates for Parasaurolophus are leaning more towards the animal being much larger than previously thought. Especially P. cyrtocristatus. Specimen MNA P.1 529 is under the assessment that the fossils belonged to an animal around 13.13 meters ( 43 feet ) long; & weighing in at around 11,800 kilograms ( 11.8 metric tons; 13 U.S. tons ) !

[@colecampbell1906]

tbh I'd bet that pretty much every single dinosaur species got bigger than we currently think they did. You gotta think about just how extremely rare it is for a creature to get fossilized. Out of the ones that do, just how many of them are actually 100% fully grown rather than being more like 80% grown when they died. And then out of THEM you'd have to realize just how many of those we even found and whether or not we found those bigger fossils or not. We could've only found .05% of the fossils available on earth of these species with none of them being more than 75% done growing. In my opinion, the absolute biggest fossils we ever find, should be considered a fairly average size for them when they're fully grown as the likelihood of it actually being one of the biggest that lived is virtually nonexistent, it's more likely that it just happened to be one of the few that was done growing.

[@TheRandomWolf]

@@colecampbell1906also I think we know there’s larger dinosaurs than argentinosaurus, argentinosaurus is just the most complete and reliable

[@hcollins9941]

@TheRandomWolf At least unless you also count Dreadnoughtus; & certain other Titanosaurs. But yes, with several fragmentary specimens, their’s definitely larger Sauropods out there. The one thing most people don’t get about Sauropods though, is that their bones have different densities in different parts of the body!

[@rexy132]

​@@colecampbell1906 95% of life has gone extinct...and will never be discovered...thats the number scientists say has existed...so if you picture an environment with 50 dinosaurs in it...there are likely going to be 100's more that never fossilized...the chance of fossilization occurring is so low that 95% of all life will vanish and never leave a mark...even us...in less than something like a million years all trace of us...including our buildings...will be gone...if we died tomorrow that is...maybe lasting radiation spots but it would be hard for say an alien race to say that it was created by us and not just a natural occurrence

[@MWSin1]

@@colecampbell1906 Also, only the most recent depictions of dinosaurs really make much effort to examine the bulk of dinosaurs. Newer studies of T. rex suggest that the one seen in Jurassic Park is terribly malnourished. Hollywood even applies unrealistic standards of beauty to tyrannosaurs. Sue and Trix are big, beautiful ladies.

[@diabolivirtusen-tavares-ea4645]

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

[@RondeLeeuw]

Hurray, a fellow pre-JP dino-dude! 😄 And I'm also 40 yo.

[@Natef89]

You're 40 and yet you type like a 75 year old boomer lmao wtf is wrong with you dude get a grip.

[@BringThePizza]

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

[@dino-gen]

Can you imagine what my poor cat has to put up with 😂

[@ignatowski156]

I heard this once in the museum when I was a kid. That sent shivers.

[@AD-dg3zz]

Pacific Science Center in Seattle? Because I've heard this exact same sound clip from in their dinosaur exhibit when I was a kid. 😂

[@ignatowski156]

@@AD-dg3zz Actually, I heard this in the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, but it's cool that other museums play this sound too!

[@pixelwolf1832]

Same here! This sound is honestly comforting to me cuz i used to go to that museum a ton as a kid! ​@@ignatowski156

[@Happinezz12]

​@@ignatowski156yo i thought i was the only one who was freaked out by that noise. I hated going in that area.

[@tinobemellow]

@AD-dg3zz I remember that one! I enjoyed the dinosaur area, but it also freaked me the fuck out, especially the groan one of them made. I'm honestly pretty sure it gave me a phobia of animatronic dinosaurs.

[@goliathsparrow1082]

Sounds ancient and it's beautiful

[@Risingofthephoenixxx]

Sounds ancient yes. Beautiful..........eh........more like I shit my pants

[@aditisk99]

​​@@Risingofthephoenixxx This is asmr to me

[@Risingofthephoenixxx]

@@aditisk99 👍🏽

[@marlenegalliot1858]

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

[@kristinakellogg5690]

My dog was like what the heck is that sound lol

[@bradyhenry8533]

Both of u guys are cap

[@bradyhenry8533]

Cap

[@bradyhenry8533]

Cap

[@jazzywarrrior1414]

My brother always makes weird noises and made a noise similar to this occasionally. My cats didn’t give a shit.

[@yeetmeister6969]

I’m a simple man, I see my favorite dinosaur in the thumbnail and title, I click

[@octopusoup]

Imagine this dinosaur getting something lodged in the sound structure. Would be an absolutely hellish experience, would rather go extinct than live with that suffering.

[@spacebear1483]

I instantly thought “man a sinus infection or head cold would be miserable”

[@rustyhowe3907]

Even just sneezing would be an awful experience, but the snot cannon would flying!😂

[@BROPify]

Imagine camping and hearing like 10 of those. Would crap myself for sure.

[@Crouton-]

It really sounds like something from an alien planet. I guess it basically is given the time difference.

[@ragingtomato04]

"the only dinosaur we kmow the sound off" 11,000+ bird species have left the chat...

[@excelsword1376]

Did you miss the part of the video where he mentioned this is the closest we will know of what a non-avian dinosaur sounds like?

[@levisprick]

Somebody should make a playable wind instrument with a 3d printed version of the reconstruction, that would sound so cool!

[@Lampoluke]

I am an amateur writer and wanting to write fantasy and science-fiction this is really useful to get immersed in a world totally different from ours. Thank you for this videos

[@dino-gen]

Glad it was helpful! Good luck with the novel(s) 🙂

[@simonwilliams4514]

That sound! Genuinely spine tingling

[@dino-gen]

Right?!

[@AshXiao1]

I got chills 😅

[@jamielishbrook2384]

Sounds like a weird mix of truck horn and symphony orchestra. Neat. I love it.

[@avadoksorem2854]

Hauntingly fitting that the call of this creature invokes images of Disney’s Fantasia around the dinosaur segment of the film and its soundtrack.

[@thepagecollective]

We know countless creatures that make all kinds of mating calls and predator warnings, but none of them with such an elaborate structure to make a sound. It had to have some purpose that was very unique for selective pressure to drive such an extreme feature.

[@coopernoble6139]

The horn of helm hammer hand shall sound in the deep once more!

[@Dan_-]

The Horn of Helm Bananahead.

[@fireflymiesumae]

True

[@coopernoble6139]

@@Dan_- that got a chuckle out of me

[@yoinki_sploinki]

I’ve been in the process of writing a sci fi novel for a couple years now. The main character is a linguist, sent to make first contact with an alien species later known as the Dj’nmar’ezhi. The dj’nma speak through a large crest, using bony plates and olfactory frills to make consonants. When not speaking, they are capable of a wide range of vocalisations, often heard as warbling, trumpeting bellows. I’ve been trying to actually picture this sound for months, and I really couldn’t get it quite right. This is it. This is the Dj’nmar’ezhi voice.

[@dino-gen]

Glad I could help! Good luck with the novel, look forward to seeing it on shelves 😃

[@wolf.eye._-]

Wow your novel sounds interesting

[@terminalpsychosis8022]

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.

[@cryoking5025]

We can’t confirm what a dinosaur would sound like, but you are right, this is the closest to knowing what a non-avian dinosaur would sound like, but we still wouldn’t know what they sounded like

[@colinmathura-jeffree9829]

When I was a child I saw a box Airfix Corythosaurus model in a window. I was OBSESSED. Duck bills became a favourite.

[@sarastepp2705]

Omg I am in love with that sound. I could totally sleep to a track or album of that sound being played with a light rain or thunderstorm in the background

[@saged1513]

Thank you so much for crediting all the images! There was some really beautiful art in there, I'm glad I was able to find the artists

[@dino-gen]

My pleasure! There’s such amazing talent out there and it would simply be unfair for them to go unappreciated

[@MadailinBurnhope]

that sound was the Jurassic Park soundtrack intro we never had

[@thejudgmentalcat]

That was definitely from the brass section of the orchestra 😂

[@sg_dan]

The Wagner tubas in a Bruckner symphony be like:

[@tdawgg6561]

0:22 who else thought the orchestral music was what he was saying Parasaurolophus sounded like

[@erichtomanek4739]

Is there any evidence that their crest had a keratin sheath overlay? Their crest could be a lot larger and also brightly coloured. As for other dino sounds; how about an angry Stegosaurus, swishing its spiked tail from side to side!

[@seantron5291]

We don’t have a way to construct the sound of a Stegosaurus. Why are you asking this?

[@shrympcryptid]

@@seantron5291 A few minutes/seconds before the video ends the creator asks if you could pick one, what kind dinosaur would you like to hear the sound of.

[@seantron5291]

@@shrympcryptid It won’t be accurate at all though.

[@shrympcryptid]

@@seantron5291 Yeah but the person wishes to hear a Stegosaurus sound if it could ACTUALLY be made accurate. Let someone answer a question the creator asked for engagement for fun.

[@willothewisp2980]

@@seantron5291 bro has never heard of a hypothetical question /j

[@littlebird8515]

I love that they sound like a truck horn. If they made sounds that loud, I wonder if it was to scare off predator's. trick them into thinking there was more in the herd then there actually was. I wonder if they were like birds and just made little honks constantly. imagine waking up in the morning to the honks. I wish I could hear and see them. I wish I knew the variety of their conversation honks. imagine baby honks.

[@coriknight9073]

It's like a deeper woodwind sound. It's really strikingly beautiful.

[@anthonywestbrook2155]

I remember as a kid, my dad letting me stay up to see a paleontologist on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He brought out a replica parasaurolophus crest and blew through it. I don't remember the sound, but I remember the awe I had for hearing what a real dinosaur sounded like. Core memory. This is probably more accurate than that was, so thank you.

[@SongbirdGaming]

It’s really interesting to learn this, in the sci fi survival crafting dinosaur game Ark Survival, Parasaurs are one of the first dinos you encounter, and they do make a trumpeting sound to warn other parasaurs nearby of danger. In the game they also have a special ability when tamed, they can use echolocation to spot potential enemies. They are a very common early game creature to tame and ride around on!

[@RBLX-L-STUDIOS]

even if i've heard this sound before, this still makes my hair stand up, its like a glitch in the system i feel

[@Undomaranel]

Music teacher here. The fun thing about having such a low fundamental note, as any tuba or trombone player can tell you, is the amount of overtones you have. Blow the air faster, pinch it with your lips, and you get all sorts of higher notes that blend harmonically due to the physics of sharing the same base wavelength. You ever heard "Taps" or "Bugle Call"? Those are played without changing the keys at all, just by utilizing different partials/ air speed. I have no doubt these dinosaurs took advantage of that and sang many wondrous songs, harmonized in many mournful choirs, and flexed a range us upright mammals can only dream of experiencing.

[@mycityglory]

thought someone was moving furniture around the house for a minute there

[@joianoel]

I had the audio playing on my phone as my cat slept next to me. She normally sleeps successfully through action movies and exterior noises, such as traffic or dogs barking, and is not easily startled. But when the trumpeting noises started, even at a low volume, my cat woke up out of a dead sleep, utterly FREAKED OUT. She was looking wildly around her, and seemed terrified. It's wild how animal instinct can work. Even separated by millions of years, she reacted not as if this were a manufactured sound, but as if it were from a predator she couldn't see, and whose vocalizations she couldn't recognize.

[@wolf.eye._-]

This is the 3rd or 4th comment I've read now like this. Very very interesting.

[@Schoolforthesoul]

6:45 my beagle just stopped dead in his tracks and looked at me with his eyes super wide!😂 poor guy thought a Dino was in the house 😂

[@bro4539]

In the first few seconds I was 100% sure you weren't speaking english lmao

[@DanSolo871]

Haha. I thought I clicked a Celtic video.

[@jeskvell3254]

jesus i thought i was having a stroke dude's accent made my life flash before my eyes

[@alina_rose1]

I found your channel not long ago, and have enjoyed binging through them. Great work and thank you so much for this video on what has been a lifelong favorite!☺️

[@dino-gen]

That's awesome, thank you so much! I'm really glad you're enjoying the content 🙂

[@anarivera9649]

I put myself in the setting and I was not prepared. That sent chills down my spine. I’m fascinated by dinosaurs. Thanks for this video ❤

[@snrkybrd]

How! have I not found even A SINGLE dinosaur person on KZbin until now!!! hello sir thank you!!!!!!!

[@dino-gen]

I'm happy to be your first :D

[@thedogman7846]

I would LOVE to hear a baryonyx walkeri or a suchomimus tenerensis

[@CZPanthyr]

I would love to hear the raptors, as I am not convinced that they roared. I would also love to hear the stegasaurus, and the ankylosaurus. Yeah, mostly the therapods.

[@AgentMercer]

The raptors (dromaeosaurs) were maniraptoran dinosaurs, the same clade that contains modern birds, i’d bet some of them made beautiful noises

[@margheritaparacini7729]

​@@AgentMercerClucking raptors

[@AstralMystic]

Absolutely second your comment. Stegosaurus and ankylosaurus are two of my favorite dinosaurs too. And while it's unlikely anyone will ever know what either sounded like, it would be neat to nevertheless. The raptors would be super neat too! They were very birdlike, and so I would think they'd be quite noisy, but in a good, cool way. Terrifying to actually hear nearby. But pretty all the same.

[@IMADINOSAURNOTABIRD]

I imagine velociraptors hissing, clicking, and perhaps certain harsh sounds, like crows or macaws make

[@bryceanwhimsey]

My three-year-old girl has picked up on my armchair fascination with paleontology. This is her favorite dinosaur, mostly because she loves knowing that they made a honking kind of sound. To actually hear it is breathtaking. Thank you.

[@vincenzo547]

I will have that sound in my head forever. I remember hearing the moment they went public about it, and it continues to fit in my mind, rent free.

[@dycorty9182]

I get such a rush of joy every time the western interior seaway is mentioned!!!!! Such an insane feature of the US (which hosted MANY predatory species that all coexisted due to niche partitioning) that not many people know about!!!!

[@dino-gen]

I actually did a video on it! 😃

[@Zootycoonman223]

Multiple megafauna existed at the same time during the Pleistocene. I’m sure Cretaceous ecosystems were just as complicated systems. Just in North America we had three Proboscideans coexisting: Woolly Mammoth, Colombian Mammoth, American Mastodon (and theories ranging as high as 16 species). They partitioned ecosystems and competition was limited. So it’s not crazy to think multiple species of megafaunal dinosaurs coexisted.

[@gamarleton]

4:36 idk why but their face made me laugh.

[@FoxfurYT]

Wow, I can absolutely imagine paras sounding like that. It really is beautiful and horrifying, like imagine hearing that in the middle of the night!

[@funkyschnitzel]

The audio recreation sounds too metallic to my ear. Do we know what material they made the replica from? My guess is a thin metal. It would be interesting to hear this played through a model made from bone/cartilage/skin/etc.

[@zburgess2880]

If Henry Cavill was super into dinosaurs instead of 40k... lol. But seriously, great video

[@dino-gen]

I'm very flattered by how much I'm getting that lately 😂 glad you enjoyed 🙂

[@russell2910]

Not only is the sound beautiful, but it is oberall the most beautiful creature that ever roamed the earth.

[@owlnemo]

About thirty years ago, this discovery came out and my dad set our windows screen to a parasaurolophus picture, with this sound as a booting sound. I could hear it before you even started playing it. Brings back memories of my dino obsession.

[@dino-gen]

That's awesome :D

[@MrT_Rex]

That sound is beautiful

[@ArturdeSousaRocha]

Well, about that last question, I heard a few tweet in the tree today. 😆

[@lookchook]

you are my new favourite youtube man now i think. you just!!! make videos about dinosaurs all the time. thats so cool

[@dino-gen]

Thank you so much! It certainly feels really cool that I get to do that 😃

[@Barakon]

7:07 I say crank up the dankness/dampness of that horn sound & you’ll get it right.

[@thomasgumersell9607]

Fascinating to hear the reconstructive sound from this particular Dinosaur. One can imagine the herd calling out to one another. I found this video truly interesting. 💪🏻🙏🏻✨

[@absolarix]

I have a 5.1 surround system, and my cat was on my lap while I was watching this. Clang got very tense and was looking around, concerned at 06:45

[@mistressmuffin5606]

This is still my favorite dinosaur and always will be. It’s absolutely beautiful… makes me love them more, thank you for making this video

[@typo1345]

hell yeah, and Parasaurolophus has always been my favorite dino. Parasaur gang rise up!

[@oscarlemstra9740]

I think you will get a better representation of the sound, if you have a model that takes into account that the sound would be in contact with the flesh and saliva in the mouth of the dino. But that is just a guess. EDIT If someone knows i would like to know if i'm right

[@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319]

Next time I read Michael Crichton's The Lost World I'll be sure to imagine that sound when Levine tried to communicate with the parasaurs.

[@alifetime360]

This was truly amazing! The things technology & science together allow us to gain a glimpse into; just incredible. Thank you for sharing this with us!

[@dino-gen]

Glad you enjoyed it! 😃

[@artistjoh]

A sound like that suggests to me a social animal similar to whales, not necessarily in a herd, but maintaining connections beyond line of sight.. Sounds can be made for a variety of reasons. To strike fear, power, and panic like lions, to communicate dangers to a herd or group, but most often to attract mates, or for long distance cohesion between group members. Whales are famous for their musicality and this dinosaur has the potential for similar behavior - long distance communication between group members, and maybe, like the Lyrebird, an elaborate mating ritual.

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Didn't they find a fossilised larynx of something recently? Also, isn't there a nearly complete mummified anchy? Haven't they CT scanned that thing yet?

[@dino-gen]

They have, but that was from an ankylosaur and there wasn’t enough info from it for the scientists to confidently reconstruct the sound. Still a really cool find though! With the mummified ankylosaur, a lot was preserved which they CT scanned but it still wasn’t a huge insight into how it sounded. They could tell what colour it was though! I go more into on my dino colour video 😊

[@Shimo_solos]

Props to the guys who went back in time to get this 👍

[@WorthlessDeadEnd]

The sound engineer never dies 😉

[@MMLCGG]

It sounds like a chair being moved in a church lmao

[@armoredghost918]

Hearing the mighty bellow of a titanosaur must have been wild

[@pinkdragon4830]

0:01 can someone explain wtf he said

[@TherapyGel]

You know I've realized; after a year of uploading... I haven't done a Hadrosaur yet! So why not start it on a high and do my personal favorite Hadrosaur, the Parasaurolophus.

[@girlfriday1299]

It is eerily beautiful. It also reminds me of those "strange sounds in the sky" videos!

[@verdant9644]

Great video! Been loving your content, keep it up!

[@dino-gen]

Glad you enjoy it! I certainly will 😃

[@ToniAllen]

My absolute favorite dinosaur ever. I got a half-sleeve tattoo of the pic at 4:42 on my right arm. I love them so much.

[@SorenNido]

The parasaurolophus is my most favorite dinosaur ever, love that cool lookin' dude

[@callenclarke371]

An amazing sound. Fascinating video. Well done.

[@dino-gen]

Thanks!

[@evorbis]

Amazing Video!

[@arthogof]

Amazing video, you've earned another subscriber!

[@kailahm.adefolalu9366]

Wow, incredible video!

[@lionman1573]

Very informative and professional. Good quality editing, great content. Subscribed. I hope your channel grows, sir. You deserve it. Well done and thank you.

[@dino-gen]

Thanks for the sub! Really appreciate it and I’m glad you’re enjoying it 😊 think there’s still room for improvement but I certainly feel I’ve come along nicely from the quality a year ago!

[@NovaandthePastapup]

This is actually my fave dinosaur!!! Thanks for the video!

[@elmarow2495]

Speaking of sounds, first time on this channel and as a native English speaker this is somehow one of the only times I couldn’t for the life of me understand what someone else was saying 😵‍💫

[@dino-gen]

I’m thinking it’s the Essex accent mixed with sound editing to clear up the echo, I promise I’m working on it 😂

[@elmarow2495]

😂 no worries! Just threw me off for the first minute (I’m Australian so idk)

[@zayne8331]

Para’s are probably my favorite dinosaur. I know, generic, but I loved dinosaurs growing up, to the point that I would walk to the public library 30 minutes from my house almost everyday after school, just so I could browse the dinosaur books, and even as a child Para’s were my favorite.