![First Day Of The Royal Cornwall Show A man reacts to the Eden Project's life-size juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex that has been brought as a preview to the nearby attraction's "Dinosaur Uprising" opening this summer on June 9, 2016 near Wadebridge, England.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/dinosaur-roar-coo.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
Not only did some dinosaurs have feathers, but according to new research the prehistoric creatures may have emitted coos or mumbles instead of mammalian roars.
After a comprehensive review of vocal data from bird and crocodile species, scientists from universities in Arizona, Texas, Utah and Canada found that dinosaur sounds may be what they call a “closed-mouth vocalization.” According to the research published in Evolution, a similar example would be the coos of a dove, in which sounds are emitted through the skin and neck area while the beak is kept closed.
“Looking at the distribution of closed-mouth vocalization in birds that are alive today could tell us how dinosaurs vocalized,” Chad Eliason from The University of Texas Jackson School of Geosciences and the study’s co-author said in a statement. “Our results show that closed-mouth vocalization has evolved at least 16 times in archosaurs, a group that includes birds, dinosaurs and crocodiles. Interestingly, only animals with a relatively large body size (about the size of a dove or larger) use closed-mouth vocalization behavior.”
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