By studying the wing properties of a 150-year-old holotype, scientists discover that a relict group of singing insects produced pure-tone songs at low frequencies which could travel larger distances, advancing our understanding of ancient soundscapes

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Article URL:  https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0270498

Article Title: Reviving the sound of a 150-year-old insect: The bioacoustics of Prophalangopsis obscura (Ensifera: Hagloidea)

Author Countries: U.K., Austria

Funding: This study was funded by a European Research Council grant no. ERCCoG-2017–773067 and an NSF – NERC grant no. NSF DEB-1937815 – NERC T014806/1 to FMZ.TJ is supported through the European Commission via a Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship (829208, InWingSpeak).