Researchers have re-created the love song of a katydid from 165 million years ago, based on an analysis of fossilized wings found in northwest China. They say the chirp adds an aural dimension to our ...

After being harangued by our BV community journalist Cathy Benson, this Katydid flew into a nearby apple tree and made lots of loud whirring sounds for the rest of the afternoon and evening. It is one ...

Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of animals—especially vertebrates and insects—ranging from mating to warning calls and even social learning. The reconstruction of ancient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tarragoilus diuturnus (a living member of the Prophalangopsidae) displaying call oscillogram and acoustic spectral energy. (CREDIT ...

An artist's impression of the forest where dinosaurs lived 165 million years ago in the Jurassic period. Based on wing structures preserved in fossils of nine species of Kiturami and katydid-family ...

On warm August evenings in New York's Hudson Valley, the loudest sound outside may be coming from the trees rather than from crickets. Katydids, green insects that blend in with leaves, can overwhelm ...

EVERYTHING was going to plan for the male cicada looking for love. High in his tree in the dry bush country of eastern Australia, he started his serenade. First he gave a bright chirruping prelude, ...

The forests of the Jurassic are silent to us now. Fossils preserve bones, shells and sometimes remarkably delicate wings, but the calls and songs that once filled those landscapes vanished almost as ...

Acoustic communication has played a key role in the evolution of animals especially vertebrates and insects, ranging from mating to warning calls and even social learning. The reconstruction of ...