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Sarah Knapton
The Daily Telegraph
December 9, 2017

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The fearsome roar of Tyrannosaurus Rex as portrayed in film has left many a cinema-goer quaking in their seat.

But new research suggests the king of the dinosaurs made a far more sinister sound.

For a new BBC documentary, naturalist Chris Packham visited Julia Clarke, professor of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the University of Texas, to test out a the theory that dinosaurs actually sounded more like birds and reptiles, than today’s predatory mammals.

“The most chilling noises in the natural world today come from predators, the howl of the wolf, the roar of the tiger, but experts now doubt that T-Rex sounded anything like them,” said Packham.

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It's pretty weird sounding.

@Frank Cannon It's on You Tube. This is what I hear when I see one of your posts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

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It's pretty weird sounding.

@Frank Cannon It's on You Tube. This is what I hear when I see one of your posts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

You're not Rick Rolling me sister.

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You're not Rick Rolling me sister.

Whatever do you mean?

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Whatever do you mean?

I smell a set up.

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I smell a set up.

That's probably the Scotch you're drinking.