Marie Gicquel, edited by Ophélie Artaud 8:10 a.m., December 29, 2022
The cries of the dinosaurs terrorized all the spectators of "Jurassic Park".
Yet, according to a recent scientific study, these animals were much quieter than previously thought.
They actually produced "closed mouth" sounds, like some crocodiles and other birds do", as a paleontologist explains to Europe 1.
The fierce roars of Jurassic Park's tyrannosaurs have terrorized millions of onlookers.
But all of this is false.
According to a recent scientific study, the large toothy mouths of dinosaurs were much quieter than we imagine.
In recent years, thanks to more efficient equipment and the discovery of fossils, researchers have been able to put forward new theories on the sounds emitted by these prehistoric animals.
"You could say they were cooing"
"A good majority,
a priori,
must have produced sounds, but with their mouths closed, as do some crocodiles and other birds. We can say that they were cooing", explains Damien Germain, paleontologist at the National Museum of Natural History.
A cooing all the same probably very far from those that we know.
"You have to imagine that on a huge animal, so it's a very low pitched coo and probably quite terrifying."
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It is not only the fossils that inform paleontologists.
"We know that if we can find a common element between crocodiles and birds, it must have been present in the dinosaurs."
Research is now focusing on the tactile communication of dinosaurs, which have not yet said their last word.