Night-time in the Jurassic forest was punctuated by the unmistakable
sound of chirping bush crickets. This is according to scientists who
have reconstructed the song of a cricket that chirped 165 million years
ago.
A remarkably complete fossil of the prehistoric insect enabled the team
to see the structures in its wings that rubbed together to make the
sound. The international team report their findings in the journal PNAS.
Scientists from the US and China discovered the tiny fossil and named
their newly discovered species Archaboilus musicus, because the
music-making structures in its body were so clearly visible.
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