The mating song of an extinct cricket that lived 165 million years ago has been bought back to life thanks to an international team of scientists. Modern-day katydids or bush crickets produce mating calls by stimulation - rubbing a row of teeth on one wing against a plectrum on the other - but how their ancestors produced their song was unknown until researchers from Capital Normal University in Beijing found an exceptionally detailed bushcricket fossil from the Mid Jurassic Period.
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