How can a fossil tell us what an insect sounded like 165 million years ago? Scientists used details preserved in the wings of Jurassic insects to reconstruct their calls. Listen to each call while seeing the fossil used to re-create the sound.
Video credit: J.-J. Gu _et al./Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,_ 2026
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