Spyke

The thing I dislike about this is that Schmetterling actually sounds the most sweet out of the languages used (from the video probably being referenced), if you say it normally.

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Funny thing is that the "Schmetter" is a product when making butter. So the butterfly and Schmetterling share the same naming origin

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Swedneckreply
discuss.tchncs.de

bear in mind that birds are a specific branch of dinosaurs, closest related to stuff like velociraptor.

so it's a pretty good bet that raptors would make bird-like noises (though probably less complex and lower pitched), but doubtful that a stegosaurus would sound anything like a bird.

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lemmy.world

Idk man there are some birds that don't even sound like birds.

Imagine a dinosaur sized shoebill snapping it's beak.

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feddit.ch

I think i read somewhere that velociraptors were about as smart as a dog. Convergent evolution, because both are group-hunting predators.

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wewbullreply
feddit.uk

So are dolphins (group hunting predators). Pretty sure they rank a lot higher than a dog on the intelligence scale.

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They are basically the sistergroup. When the term dinosaur was coined, the most distantly related dinosaurs were taken as reference and everything and everything "between" them was defined as a dinosaur. Pterodactyls weren't known back than, that's basically the reason they are excluded

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feddit.de

Please do not listen to this Podcast!!! You will loose all your friends and family by dumping a metric fuckton of completely out-of-context dino-facts all over your social life.

Trust me, its not gonna be pretty. I listened to a few episodes and little plastic dinosaurs started appearing in our living room. Also my three-year-old started speaking in tongues (says my granny because apparently she doesn't now what a Micropachycephalosaurus is)

BE CAREFUL!

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Dinosaurs are currently defined as anything that descends from the most recent common ancestor of triceratops and the pigeon.

Which, as others pointed out is mostly due to dinosaurs being originally defined before we found the first pterodactyl.

If you want to refer to dinosaurs and pterodactyls, you could use avemetatarsalians (anything more closely related to birds than crocs) or ornithodirans (dinosaurs + pterosauromorphs).

Also fun is that there's a number of crocodillians that look suspiciously dinosaur- like, like Shuvosaurus. Convergent evolution is wild.

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pawb.social

𝕯𝖎𝖊𝖘𝖊 𝕶𝖔𝖒𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖗𝖘𝖊𝖐𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓 𝖎𝖘𝖙 𝖓𝖚𝖓 𝕰𝖎𝖌𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖚𝖒 𝖉𝖊𝖗 𝕭𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖊𝖘𝖗𝖊𝖕𝖚𝖇𝖑𝖎𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖚𝖙𝖘𝖈𝖍𝖑𝖆𝖓𝖉

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There are many decades between use of this font and the Bundesrepublik Deutschland. This post is a typographical disaster.

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Akasazhreply
feddit.nl

Bad German! You can't lebensraum here. Back to Bonn.

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After seeing Bonn and Berlin I must say they both suck. Should have made Duisburg the capital.

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YaksDCreply
lemm.ee

Maybe the people speaking in the post are daft, elderly people from the rhineland.

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When I was a kid, I had a dinosaur book that suggested Eryops probably sounded like a Buick. I have no idea if they meant the horn or the engine. One of those odd "facts" that sticks with you, though.

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sh.itjust.works

Not to mention that they wouldn't have addressed them by the names we gave them after they went extinct.

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It still is in German! But we use K instead of C in this case, so true, if they spoke German it would be a Pterodaktylus

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Daerunreply
lemmy.world

VERY disappointed this article didn't include an audio file

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lemmy.world

This is besides the fact that we kinda do. There’s a lot of caveats there, though, They’ve been scanning what they think is their vocal organs, generating 3d meshes and printing them out.

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FuglyDuckreply
lemmy.world

I mean... I 3d printed the model in TPU... it kinda sounded like a squeaky fart.

Granted, I'm not a scientist, and I'm pretty sure the sound is going to be affected by material and stuff. but it sounded like a squeaky fart.

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FuglyDuckreply
lemmy.world

naw. The mummy vocal chords are creepy.

Dino vocal...er... do they even have vocal chords?... My nephew was in a dinosaur phase. (still is, to be honest. there's 3 phases I never grew out of, if I'm any indication- dinosaurs, jumping-in-mud-puddles and robots. despite my SiL's protests... I think I'm a great influence.)

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Playing that for my niece, just as soon as they come over (probably this weekend.)

You know that scene in Serenity (aka firefly,)? I may resemble that.

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lemm.ee

I've always imagined that they sound like angry chickens or geese.

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I mean, technically angry chickens (and non-angry ones) and geese are dinosaurs. More than the ones mentioned in the post.

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Yeah, we have chickens running around where I live, and those mfers can really sound creepy as fuck. That sort of muted muffled gutteral shriek thing they do? That's never mentioned in children's farm animals books...

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We actually do have some educated guesses based on muscle reconstruction

Apparently T-Rexes sounded like Freddy Fazbear

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Isn't this just the premise of the secret Hitler board game?

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