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 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 ...