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The song about the song of the Jurassic cricket

Maggie Koerth-Baker at 7:25 am Wed, Feb 15, 2012

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Last week, we learned that scientists had reconstructed the song of a Jurassic-era cricket. This week, song-a-day impresario Jonathan Mann has written a ballad to that lonely insect and its ancient quest for love.

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Maggie Koerth-Baker is the science editor at BoingBoing.net. She writes a monthly column for The New York Times Magazine and is the author of Before the Lights Go Out, a book about electricity, infrastructure, and the future of energy. You can find Maggie on Twitter and Facebook.

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  • http://noctilucent-studios.blogspot.com/ Noctilucent Studios

    First thing I thought of when I heard this cricket singing….

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fog_Horn

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SUNJWG3QIJRT76A7F3HKDIFOXU Baz

    For some reason that really touched my heart.  Paleontology is an amazing thing, the only way we can get in touch with living things from millions of years in the past. How lucky was this cricket to get fossilized, and were we for finding it to be able to learn about it and play its song for the first time in 165 million years. The song  got that point, I like it. 

    • Lobster

      I like the part where we get to pretend we’re dinosaurs.

  • awjt

    Cute, apart from the dork factor.  But hey dorks need love too: I can relate to that.

  • ryuchi

    This is SO YUCKY (singer, voice, alure, air…)