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Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape

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Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape
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The sights and sounds of the Jurassic era are long gone, and we will never know for sure what that ancient world looked and sounded like. Fossils can offer clues, and reconstructions can give us a sense of the noises some animals might have made. Now scientists have turned their attention to insects and reconstructed the calls of Jurassic relatives of modern-day crickets and katydids (grasshopper-like insects).

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