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What a 165-Million-Year-Old Jurassic Cricket Sounded Like
Carol Pinchefsky February 9, 2012
Crickets chirp to attract mates and warn off the competition, and crickets 165 million years ago chirped (technically, “stridulated”) for the same reasons. But Jurassic-age crickets, Archaboilus musicus, were Jurassic shaped, with different forewings—which crickets rub together to produce their familiar sound—and therefore produced an altogether different song.