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 ...

Furthermore, not all insects emit sounds—such as aphids. And very noisy contexts, like an urban environment, can easily confuse sound-based monitoring efforts. "Automated bioacoustics is a key tool in ...

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 ...

It wasn't just the roars of the dinosaurs that made up the soundscape of the animal world during the Jurassic period.

Jurassic World was not silent. Around 165 million years ago, forests in present day Inner Mongolia were filled with the calls of insects communicating through sounds that ranged from low tones to ...

A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...