He's a curator of paleontology at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, and he told me that about the time of the mid-1990s, that was when they first started the recreation of dinosaur sounds.

We collected a nearly complete skull of one of these, it...

They're very rare dinosaurs, and they're really remarkable because they have this huge crest that extends from the, the top of their skull.

The whole skull length is about six feet, and this thing really looks like an alien, like from the movie Alien, where they have this, this projection that, that sticks out of the top of their head.

The weird thing is, unlike what you see with modern birds with what they call a casque on top of the head, like there's hornbills and cassowaries have these casques, with this dinosaur, it's hollow, but it actually has tubing in it that's tied into its breathing passages.

When this dinosaur ma- makes any kind of a sound, it would resonate naturally within this structure that's sticking out of the top of their head, so it's like a built-in musical instrument.

When we collected this, we wanted to know what the internal structure of this thing looked like, so we brought it to a local hospital and had it X-rayed, uh, you know, with a CT scanning machine, and it revealed this very intricate arrangement of tubing inside of its head, which is an extension of its respiratory passages.

It sounds like an obvious question, but why is it important for us to try to imagine what dinosaurs sounded like?

So now our host for

today.

Thank you very much.

Yeah, Tom Williamson, Assistant Principal here at ARU Peterborough.

And we're really delighted to have you all here on campus, hopefully for a chance to see our facilities as well.

I guess my job broadly splits into three key areas.

So the day job, we have four faculties here at RU Peterborough, and I'm responsible for leading two of those.

I mean, you've already gone into it about the role ARU Peterborough is playing in the city's innovation and skills ecosystem.