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alsohastentacles t1_j8o3okh wrote

Ankylosaur singing in the dead of night, take this broken larynx and learn to bite

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lightwell t1_j8nzed9 wrote

So... did the ankylosaur chirp and tweet?

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Junkman3 t1_j8qat8h wrote

They didn't attempt to reproduce the sound? What the!!!!!

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CurtisLeow t1_j8qm1lw wrote

It seems very bird like, more than I expected. I would have thought the ankylosaurus larynx would have been at least a little different from birds. But that paper suggests it’s almost identical to the larynx of a very large bird. So maybe all dinosaurs were as vocal as modern birds.

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New-Oil6131 t1_j8r3t9o wrote

What does the ankylosaurs say

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