Standing in a tropical forest at night, you might hear what sounds like a small bird calling from high in the canopy. Listen more closely, though, and that “bird” turns out to be an insect with ...

Scientists spent over a decade reconstructing the calls of nine species of ancient insects to create the first accurate ...

As night falls over Australia's forests, grasslands and backyards, the hidden world of nocturnal insects stirs to life. In many ecosystems, overall insect activity actually peaks at night, especially ...

With artificial intelligence and careful modeling of fossilized wings, researchers reproduced how some extinct, katydid-like ...

Scientists used AI, lasers and fossilised wings to reconstruct sounds made by cricket and katydid relatives 165 million years ago. (Image: Jun-Jie Gu) Scientists reconstructed 165-million-year-old ...