What did a Jurassic forest sound like? Scientists recreate 165-million-year-old insect calls and make a startling discovery with AI, lasers and fossil wings

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Scientists have reconstructed sounds of nine extinct Jurassic insects. Fossilized insect wings preserved sound-producing structures for analysis. Modern insect studies and computer simulations aided this reconstruction. Some insects produced pure tone calls around five kilohertz. One species may have communicated using ultrasonic frequencies.