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Topic started on 7-2-2012 @ 02:03 AM by BBalazs

Audio: 165-Million-Year-Old Cricket Song Comes Back to Life


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A cricket song last heard 165 million years ago has been played again.

To reconstruct the sound, paleontologists compared microscopic wing structures of fossil Archaboilus musicus, a Jurassic ancestor of modern crickets, to contemporary wings. Crickets sing — or, technically, “stridulate” — by rubbing together the ridged edges of their wings.
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reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 02:20 AM by nineix
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very cool. I love when the paleontologists reconstruct extinct species sound making abilities. It's cool to hear the trumpeting of a mammoth, the honking of a hadrosaur, and even the chirping of a cricket.


reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 02:38 AM by BBalazs
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sure beats the singing robot mouth)))) must see for a laugh!



reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 02:53 AM by SoymilkAlaska
Originally posted by BBalazs
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sure beats the singing robot mouth)))) must see for a laugh!


that is the scariest thing i have ever seen in my life.


reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 03:38 AM by intrptr
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Good find. Thanks for sharing. I was wondering how modern crickets would react to it as well. Someone has got to find a noisy forest some where and play it loud to see what happens.

That mouth thing isn't singing... it's "humming". Nasty!!!


reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 06:32 AM by SoulVisions
Originally posted by SoymilkAlaska
Originally posted by BBalazs
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sure beats the singing robot mouth)))) must see for a laugh!


that is the scariest thing i have ever seen in my life.


ROFL! That reminded me of nothing else so much as it did that one Muppet on tv that would follow that other professor muppet around, and just go, "Meep meep!"

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reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 06:33 AM by atlasastro
Originally posted by BBalazs
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sure beats the singing robot mouth)))) must see for a laugh!


Aaannnnnd this is what happens when you mix nerds, robotics and sex toys.


reply posted on 7-2-2012 @ 07:30 AM by cerebralassassins
Originally posted by BBalazs
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sure beats the singing robot mouth)))) must see for a laugh!


You just raised the bar as in future sex toys and other methods of pleasure


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