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– cccpneveragain 41 points 2 years ago +41 / -0

We have some leftover bones of these things. Everything else is just comparison to modern animals. Dinosaur with carnivorous features would likely have some sort of roar, because well modern carnivores do. The MGM intro doesn't start with the soothing coo of a lion. For all we actually know they communicated by flashing lights on their forehead with some sort of code. So you compare what you observe to what you do know.

The one in the middle is right, they are making up unfounded shit for attention.

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– Hugs 31 points 2 years ago +31 / -0

What are the closest things we have now to dinosaurs? Crocodiles and alligators? They absolutely make scary sounding growls and roars. Check out 20 seconds onwards for growls, 50 seconds onwards for something approaching roars.

This took me five seconds to find. GG leftist twitter fags.

Oh, and I just found a legit roar after another 20 seconds of looking: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/R2pYLE86okk

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– deleted 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0
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– willy-willis 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

I didn't think the closed-mouth vocalization theory was even new. I watched vids where people were talking about it and trying to simulate what that might've sounded like from 4-5 years ago. Tbh, the idea of a T-Rex that communicates via this forest-shaking low rumbling noise is one I consider more intimidating than that of a T-Rex bellowing & roaring as it thunders through the woodland, if real it'd be the mark of a creature that pretty much plays its own horror OST when out hunting.

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– Knife-TotingRat 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

It'd be a creature that scares away all potential prey. It's like the mythical image of wolves howling while hunting. The idea is as stupid as the idea of humans using war whoops while actively hunting (prey or enemies).

The low rumbles would be like how elephants talk to each other over long distances, I would wager.

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– Hugs 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

?

The second video I linked is a crocodile making an open-mouthed roar.

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– Gizortnik 11 points 2 years ago +11 / -0

Considering the size of dinosaurs noses, like that t-rex, I'd bet it didn't so much as roar, as may have had a rather violent honk.

Gators also don't roar, but they rumble and vibrate which is terrifying in it's own right.

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– Strike08 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

They can roar. Though it is wasting precious energy when their rumbling cost way less energy and scares the crap out of intruders

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– irdc 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

Also, aren't chickens evolved from the Trex, or something like that? I'd agree with the violent honk theory, but I also don't really care that much.

Gators are dinosaurs, they haven't evolved very much.

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– DefinitelyNotIGN 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

Cheetahs can purr. That doesn't preclude them also roaring or growling. The posters in the thread there seem to think humans can only speak in a perfect monotone, or else are supremely privileged in being the only species able to vocalize in different tones.

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– Kienan 30 points 2 years ago +30 / -0

hate to break it to you, but dinosaurs are real animals

Firstly, fuck these idiots who think they're too cool for capitalization. What an obnoxious trend. Secondly, yes, dinosaurs are were real. They also fucking went extinct many millions of years ago. So them being "real" still doesn't make much of the "science" anything more than guesswork. What a stupid argument. Dinosaurs aren't "real," not in the way, say, a dog or a cat is real. "Dinosaurs are real animals." Fuck off, lib.

Conservatives have this issue in that to them, reality needs to line up in a certain way, so when something comes along that doesn't conform to their concept of "reality", it's not because they're wrong. It's that the "enemy" (Commies, liberals, jews) is trying to trick them.

All I can say is, holy projection, Batman! I'd say acceptance of reality is actually one of the key distinctions between "conservative" and "liberal/progressive" ideologies. But it's the progressives that can't acknowledge reality.

Fascists are defined by their wrapped [sic] nostalgia of the past.

Not sure where the fascists came in, but sure. I like how every single one of these people made at least one grammar, spelling, or punctuation mistake, too.

...how it relies on movies and not the past.

Again, Grade A Certified projection. Coming from the side that does nothing but try to erase and rewrite history, and gaslight everyone about it.

Just like their nostalgia of the 50's being a bunch of ads

And, you know, various stats and metrics, too. Their hatred of the 50's is hilarious.

Lastly, as to the issue itself...I've never met a dinosaur, I wouldn't know if they roar or coo. It's possible, as some were related to birds, and a lot of mainstream dinosaur information is filtered through what looks cool for entertainment media. That said, most modern scientists are a bunch of lying and biased bitches, and I don't trust them in the slightest. I also don't care one way or the other if dinosaurs roared or not, but seeing the retards freak out about the "fascists" is pretty great. I will say I'd be surprised if no dinosaurs roared, though, so the line that article is trying to push seems pretty stupid, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was some "emasculation" angle. Just for them, I'm taking a hardline stance: Dinosaurs roared, fuck you.

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– Assassin47 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Not sure where the fascists came in, but sure.

Possibly because the op is named "Aryan Makima".

Social media is bots arguing with bots, and npcs grasping at strawmen in a desperate bid for attention.

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– Adamrises 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

It's possible

Almost like dinosaurs were a massive fucking group that existed for millions upon millions of years. Fucking everything was possible at some point for at least some of them. Because that's how evolution works.

But these people cannot see them as anything but a singular group, so thereby all traits of one must apply to all of them. The same way that because the Sahara exists, Earth must be a "desert planet" (like all their scifi media does), and because Blacks exist, humans must be a single dark species of low IQ barbarians.

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– Kienan 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

I'm thinking this might also be a victim of journo-speak. As much as we rightfully distrust the modern scientific community, it's also often the case the media scum take a scientific article and run wild with it. I wonder if the study even said that dinosaurs didn't roar...it might have just said some cooed. Journos then went for the most soyed up clickbait interpretation. Many such cases.

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– Knife-TotingRat 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

I remember seeing something about ankylosaur larynx bones that indicated softer sounds, but that was just one particular species. It'd be like taking a fossilized human larynx and assuming all mammals could use human phonemes.

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– Adamrises 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Yeah, like I mentioned in a different comment, its pretty likely that this is a pretty neutral and mundane theory being floated around that is pretty minor in the grand scheme, but the guys reporting it have an ax to grind to make something you like and think is cool seem gay and terrible.

That's how basically all "science" news works. The articles are written with an agenda in mind and with clickbait obscuring the actual fucking fact of the article, so the only use for them is to find the link to the original paper and read it instead.

And most of them tuck that link deep in so you can't easily do so, because they know.

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– 1776ReasonsWhy 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Fascism is thinking dinosaurs roared like cool giant monsters. Sieg heil, etc. Add it to the increasingly long list of things that Leftists conjure up to further differentiate themselves from the average normal person.

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– Kienan 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Add it to the increasingly long list of things that Leftists conjure up to further differentiate themselves from the average normal person.

Also to the long list of making fascism sound good. Like dinosaurs that roar? You're a fascist. Go to the gym? Fascist! Want to be able to trust your neighbors? Fascist! Don't smell like piss? Fascist!

These people are fucking lunatics.

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– Strike08 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

We have a living dino that only decreased in size compared to their ancestors. Gators can roar and their growl is scary enough to make any adult male shit their pants when that sound comes from under their bed

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– Kiaatikea 20 points 2 years ago +20 / -0

The irony... Hey faggot, what's a woman!???

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– deleted 15 points 2 years ago +15 / -0
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– SomeRando 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0

Nothing but speculation based off some birds many millions of years evolved of course. While I don't deny that "cooing" might have been a part of their animal vernacular, there are enough examples of roaring and hissing among archaic species to suggest that they were probably a little more verbose in their threats.

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– Impishdesire 17 points 2 years ago +17 / -0

Don’t birds of prey also screech?

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– RoulerBleu 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Large cockatoos will wreck your eardrums too. I couldn't find an example of the deafening SSKKKRRROOOOOAAAAR I heard one do in the petshop, but here is one ''whining'' loudly :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxUo2YZorNY

Another one making itself big and screaming because it saw someone it dosen't like : https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7krzBpe9Vwc

The long, powerful scream I heard in the petshop, 20 feet away, was physically painful to the eardrums.

Oh and they can send you to the hospital if they attack you. One good bite = need stitches.

They sometimes ''bait'' costumers by acting cute begging to be pet ( they put their foot on the head ), then putting the foot out the cage bars to grab a finger, pull the finger, bite the finger.

And dumb costumers don't listen when you tell them ''carefull, it bites, it hates people''.

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– SomeRando 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

Indeed

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– Adamrises 9 points 2 years ago +9 / -0

My favorite dino has always been the Spinosaurus (JP3 is better than every movie except the original, fight me), who is basically on a 3 year cycle of "we were completely wrong last time, this completely different version of it is now canon" for decades now.

The field of paleontology is still plagued by the "shrinkwrap" problem, where every single dinosaur has to match up with their skeleton like the skin was literally wrapped over the bones tightly, despite that not applying to any other animal in existence.

While the "findings" might be done with a neutral, purely information stance (lol), the information is then passed through people who are anything but. Dinosaur "news" is always designed with "that thing you thought was cool? ITS ACTUALLY GAY LOL FAG." Mostly centered around the feather thing, but that's the undercurrent everytime. They want to take away something you liked as a kid, nothing else.

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– Wizardslayer 8 points 2 years ago +8 / -0

Ever hear a hawk or eagle shriek? Kind of terrifying. Definitely not going to be mistaken for a pigeon cooing.

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– Strike08 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Now increase that eagle to the size of an house and that screech becomes a roar

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– deleted 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0
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– Cyberguy64 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

Human curiosity is only surpassed by the human need to be correct.

Considering how comedically wrong people have been about dinosaurs in the past, I find it hard to believe that we had it exactly right in the 90s, and even less so now, with how corrupt the cathedral has become.

Personally, I think it's less important how accurate our understanding of Dinosaurs is, and more important how cool our cultural understanding of them turned out to be. I'll take a rad fantasy over "Ha ha, they're a bunch of dumb birds, you idiot!" any day. It's all academic in the end anyway, until someone actually gets Jurassic Park up and running.

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– ApexVeritas 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Most animals make sounds, to warn others of danger, to attract a mate, and as intimidation displays. Big animals don't make cute noises to achieve those things. Intimidation displays are meant to be loud and terrifying.

Lefties think themselves experts on every subject that comes up. They think themselves superior in every regard. Not once, have I seen or interacted with a lefty that didnt claim to know more. Hearing a lefty say "I don't know" is like spotting a unicorn. It's just that they're brainwashed idiots spouting falsehoods, fallacies, and lies. If they haven't been indoctrinated on a subject, they'll delay just long enough to research what the "authorities" say, and then castigate anyone saying anything contrary to what they just read.

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– Assassin47 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

Lefties think themselves experts on every subject that comes up. They think themselves superior in every regard. Not once, have I seen or interacted with a lefty that didnt claim to know more. Hearing a lefty say "I don't know" is like spotting a unicorn.

It's their core mental framework, which pretends to be wholly rational but is fundamentally deprived of any spiritual or intuitive understandings beyond "education" passed down from authority.

Intuitively, to them, the line going from "Ignorance" to "Knowledge" and the one going from "Conservative" to "Progressive" are the same line. To whatever extent they claim to have morals, morality is also the same line. It's why they claim more education can solve all social ills.

  • "Knowledge" = "Goodness" = "Progressive Values" = "The Right Side of History"

One reason why it's almost impossible for anyone in the cult to accept that they were wrong about anything, or that the "Right" was right all along. In their faith, that would equate to them being a bad person.

As for this debate, dinosaurs are an entire clade of animals, the ancestors of both birds and lizards, and must have had a wide vocabulary of sounds depending on the species.

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– nuggetpatrol 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

It's obvious that none of these people know what they're talking about.

The Dinosaurs obviously lived in house-like structures, had a family-like situation, with a mother, a father, a teenage son and daughter, and a baby. There was footage all over TV in the 90s. I learned it from Howard Handupme.

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– ailurus 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

I have it on good authority that, when young, they smacked their fathers on the head and shouted "NOT THE MAMA!" That was definitely neither cooing or roaring.

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– SarcasticRidley 5 points 2 years ago +5 / -0

Considering that birds are the closest living relative to dinosaurs, and that several species of birds can reproduce even unnatural sounds like chainsaws and camera shutters, I think dinosaurs, especially carnivores, would be quite capable of making a rather loud noise like a roar.

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– MegoThor 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

“IF YOU DON’T BELIEVE DINOSAURS COOED, YOU’RE A FASCIST!!!”

How do these retards remember to breathe?

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– GamingTheSystem-01 4 points 2 years ago +4 / -0

Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1747/

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– yvaN_ehT_nioJ 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

In my headcanon every bird is a dinosaur

It makes things more fun

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– FuckGenderPolitics 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

You can hardly blame conservatives for thinking that the left is trying to trick them. They're never not trying to trick conservatives and anyone else who's still sane.

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– MLGS 3 points 2 years ago +3 / -0

T-rex was a huge scaly monster who actively hunted and killed other dinosaurs and roared loudly and no amount of smug communist deboonking will ever change my mind on that one.

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– Decrixxx 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

I too liek big projectors

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– Knife-TotingRat 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

Imagine T rex sounding like a loon.

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– Skywise 2 points 2 years ago +2 / -0

The latest science I was aware of was that dinosaurs were actually bird related and birds certainly don’t “roar”

But they DO screech.

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– realerfunction 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

fascists wear history and the past as skin suits like every other shit leftist ideology

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– ApparentlyImAHeretic 1 point 2 years ago +1 / -0

for once, I slightly agree with the lefties on this screenshot. I've never thought of dinosaurs as some kind of paragon of masculinity or male icon. linking them to the culture war in any way is just stupid.

also

screenshot

OP is a faggot.

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– deleted 12 points 2 years ago +12 / -0
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– realerfunction 7 points 2 years ago +7 / -0

i didn't even know mice ACTUALLY squeaked until my cat bullied one.

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– deleted 6 points 2 years ago +6 / -0

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