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Ancient Cricket Song Brought to Life In a paper published in the latest issue of the esteemed journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers present the love song that an extinct cricket used to call on his prospective mates more than 165 million years ago. The species lived during the Jurassic Period, and was a “con...	7 February 2012 04:51 GMT

The Evolution of Ears Predates the Evolution of Predators An analysis conducted on the fossilized remains of crickets and katydid that lived 50 million years ago revealed that these creatures evolved ears at a time when there were no predators to use them against. Understandably, ears evolved as a defense mechanism in most species, allowing them to detect a predator while...	4 January 2012 08:26 GMT

Species Found Unchanged After 100 Million Years In an interesting new discovery, researchers found that a group of insects did not evolve at all over the past 100 million years. The group is the ancestor of some insects that still live today, and the research shows little differences between the creatures living today and their forefathers.The fact that these larg...	9 February 2011 09:45 GMT

Scientists Say We Should All Eat Insects Exotic foods are all the rage these days, with people looking to bring a little adventure into their culinary worlds via a series of spices and herbs that don't exactly grow in our back gardens. Our tendency towards the new, the fashionable and the exotic is also reflected in the unusual (sometimes downright ala...	2 June 2008 03:45 GMT

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