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A History Un-meow-n By: Jesse Florez

You see it in movies, read it in books, and even mimic it yourself. As far as the knowledge of most modern-day humans goes, dinosaurs said "ROAR". However, in further studies, it is a fact that we have no primary idea of what dinosaurs sound like. So the question is, "what sound did dinosaurs actually make?" There is no living person today who has ever directly heard the sound of a dinosaur. We have no proof that they roared. According to the Smithsonian Magazine, bone structure can tell us almost nothing about the sound that emerges from a being. Vocal cords are what cause the sound and frequency produced by their host. Since fossils are the only known remains of dinosaurs, it remains evident that the vocal cords decomposed with the other organs. In short, someone created the image that dinosaurs stomped around with either a mighty "ROAR" or a chaotic "SKREEEEEEEE". Dinosaurs could have made an infinite amount of different noises. If we were to compare dinosaur sounds to the sounds we hear today and every dinosaur has a different distinct noise, dinosaurs could have said anything; woof, tweet, roar, squawk, moo and yes, meow. For the time being, we're going to refer to all of these sounds as one: "meow". Let's say dinosaurs said meow. They wouldn't all make the same frequencies of meow, of course. Naturally, larger hosts have a deeper range and smaller hosts have a higher range of voice. To sum it up, to scale, a Tyrannosaurus Rex would have the voice of the Allstate man while a Pterodactyl would have the voice of Theodore from "Alvin and the Chipmunks". This similar to the principle of human speech, seeing as a female will most of the time have a higher pitched voice than that of a male. If this is the same for our dino friends, this could mean that they have even more in common. This could mean that female dinosaurs had a higher meow than male dinosaurs and it didn’t only apply to dinosaur types. This means younger dinosaurs had a higher meow and possibly even had a lisp until they completed speech development. Judging by the ideas listed above, there is even more that we can press to the subject. We might even welcome the idea that dinosaurs developed a spoken language. If we further elaborate on this, it could mean that different types of dinosaurs, or dinosaurs originating from different locations could have spoken or made their speech in different languages that could be understood by their kind, but also could be learned by others; different pronunciations of meow to be brief. Dinosaurs could have been almost civilized creatures (aside from all the violence and eating eachother). In conclusion, there are many things today that scientists have not yet even scratched the surface of; the sound of dinosaurs being one. Once again, it has been made perfectly clear that there is no single living person today who has ever truly heard a dinosaur go “ROAR” or “SKREEEE” or “stomp stomp clap”. So the question still remains, “what does the dinosaur say?” Well, to honestly answer, we have no idea. But as soon as we figure out the time machine, the first thing we’ll do is frolic with a couple of Tyrannosaurus Rexes and prove our hypothesis to be correct.