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yes, there's loop content in here if you look closely. -Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- Von: Dave Aftandilian [SMTP:da@press.uchicago.edu] Gesendet am: Sonntag, 3. Mai 1998 22:21 An: acoustic-ecology@sfu.ca Betreff: Dinosaur music According to the 18 April 98 issue of NEW SCIENTIST, researchers Tom Williamson of the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Carl Diegert of Sandia National Laboratories took a CAT scan of the skull of the so-called "trombone duckbill" hadrosaur *Parasaurolophus*. They found that the hollow crest with long, looped tubes from the nostrils up to the top of the crest and then back down toward the throat "would have put on an impressive performance" whether or not the dinosaur possessed vocal organs. "Without vocal organs, it could have got sounds to resonate in the crest just as you cna produce noises by blowing across the top of a bottle. The result would have been a very low note (similar in pitch to the lowest note on a piano). With vocal organs, it would have been rather more musical, producing a wider repertoire of frequencies. The sound has been compared to that of a didgeridoo." I don't have sound capabilities on this computer, but more information can be found at and the sounds can supposedly be heard on the web at: http://www.nmmnh-abq.mus.nm.us/nmmnh/parasound.html -- Dave