50 million year old cricket and katydid fossils hint at the origins of insect hearing
Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 11:01
in Paleontology & Archaeology
How did insects get their hearing? A new study of 50 million year-old cricket and katydid fossils sporting some of the best preserved fossil insect ears described to date help trace the evolution of the insect ear, says a new study by researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center.