After 150 years sitting silently in a museum, a strange specimen has now sung its song once more. Scientists have digitally recreated the sound of a long-lost species of insect, not seen since 1869, ...
Meet a katydid that sounds like a bird and is as big as one too! It's even able to modulate its call to avoid attracting bats ...
Next to bird songs, insect songs are the most common tunes of summer. We often attribute insect songs to crickets, but we may actually hear 42 other species of singing insects in local neighborhoods ...
Listen closely. A cooing or murmuring sound is interspersed with one that sonically resembles Velcro separating. Another is similar to ticking tones that resonate and subside at random intervals.
With a one-of-a-kind museum specimen, researchers recreated the chirp of ancient cricket relatives that droned alongside the dinosaurs. By Jack Tamisiea Whether it’s a cicada’s earsplitting drone, a ...