DALLAS — The roar of a T. rex, made iconic by Jurassic Park, has become the soundtrack of prehistory.
In reality, no one — not even paleontologists — can say for certain what dinosaurs sounded like, though there have been plenty of guesses. The mystery has fueled decades of research, and, for Courtney Brown, an associate professor at Southern Methodist University, it has inspired her to seek answers through an unexpected medium: music.
For more than a decade, Brown has been building musical instruments modeled on skulls of hadrosaurs, or duck-billed dinosaurs that roamed the planet some 70 million years ago…