Insect ears The iconic New Zealand cricket-like weta has ears similar to those of a whale, researchers have found. Biologist Dr Kate Lomas, of the University of Auckland and colleagues report their ...

Katydids are the earliest known animals to evolve complex communication using sound. Fossils reveal how these bush crickets likely dominated ancient soundscapes when dinosaurs were roaming the Earth ...

Around 200 million years ago, katydids, an insect group related to grasshoppers and crickets, were already singing to communicate to attract mates and hearing long-distance calls, a new study has ...

The illustration of the ancient Phantaspis auritus. Photo: Courtesy of Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeonotology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Scientists have discovered the fossil of an ancient ...