Tyrannosaurus FX

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🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When you imagine the sound of a dinosaur, you probably think of a scene from the Jurassic Park movies. How do sound designers make these extinct creatures sound so believably alive? And what does modern paleontology tell us about what dinosaurs REALLY sounded like? This guest episode of Twenty Thousand Hertz features Jurassic World sound designer Al Nelson and paleontologist Julia Clarke.

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0:00.0	Hey there, side doorbells.
0:02.8	You know, we here at the Smithsonian are all about dinosaurs.
0:07.3	The National Museum of Natural History is full of dinosaur bones and fossils that give
0:11.6	us clues about the animals that roamed the Earth long before our time.
0:16.0	And these fossils can tell us so much about what it was like to be a dinosaur.
0:20.0	What they ate, how they looked, the way that they moved.
0:23.5	But there's one aspect of dinolife that remains pretty mysterious.
0:28.7	Dinosaurs sounded like.
0:31.8	Luckily, one of our favorite shows, 20,000 Hertz, has thought about this question
0:36.4	in their episode, Tyrannosaurus FX.
0:39.6	In that episode, host Dallas Taylor talks with one of the sound designers of the Jurassic World movies
0:45.0	about how they decided what long extinct animals that nobody has ever heard before
0:50.0	should sound like.
0:51.4	Then he checks in with real-life paleontologists to get a sense of just how accurate those sounds might be,
0:56.6	knowing what we do know about dinosaurs.
0:59.4	So, while we're on our summer break, we wanted to share that episode of 20,000 Hertz with you,
1:04.6	because it is Dino Might.
1:07.7	Enjoy.
1:09.1	You're listening to 20,000 Hertz.
1:16.6	When Jurassic Park first came out, it brought dinosaurs to life in a way that people had never experienced before.
1:23.0	Not only did the dinosaurs look incredible, but they also sounded amazing.
1:31.4	Up until that point, there hadn't been a clear idea in the public consciousness about what
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