Summary
"Is there is any way of knowing what noises, if any, dinosaurs would have made?" asks Freddie Quinn, aged 8 from Cambridge in New Zealand.
From Jurassic Park to Walking with Dinosaurs, the roars of gigantic dinosaurs like T.Rex are designed to evoke fear and terror.
But did dinosaurs actually roar? And how do paleontologists investigate what noises these extinct animals may have produced? Hannah and Adam talk to dinosaur experts Steve Brusatte and Julia Clarke to find out.
Plus Jurassic World sound designer Al Nelson reveals the strange sounds they used as dinosaur noises in their Hollywood blockbusters.
Presenters: Hannah Fry, Adam Rutherford Producer: Michelle Martin
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:04.8 | MUSIC |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Dr Adam Rutherford. |
| 0:12.4 | And I'm Dr Hannah Fry. |
| 0:13.8 | And you are going to send us your everyday mysteries. |
| 0:16.7 | And we are going to investigate them. |
| 0:18.6 | Using the power of... |
| 0:20.1 | Science! |
| 0:21.1 | Science! |
| 0:22.1 | I like it. |
| 0:27.8 | Yes? |
| 0:28.6 | Where? |
| 0:30.3 | I think we agreed you were going to start, weren't we? |
| 0:32.2 | Oh, when you just circulated, you sort of pointed it yourself. |
| 0:35.4 | Because your thumb was pointing at you and your finger was pointing at me. |
| 0:38.7 | Basically, you did finger guns at me. |
| 0:42.4 | The finger gun is the universal language for its yoga. |
| 0:45.9 | Yeah, it is actually. |
| 0:48.0 | Hello! |
| 0:48.8 | It is the last episode in the current series, |
| 0:51.4 | which we think is the 114th series that we've done so far. |
| 0:55.7 | We've just lost count. |
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