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An international team of top boffins has quite literally left no stone unturned in its efforts to answer a highly unusual question: Just what did the love songs of the Jurassic era really sound like? This is actually the mating music of a "primitive bush cricket", whose modern descendants are also known as katydids, which …

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  1. BoldMan

    Wow that gave me a fright, thought you'd uncovered a recording of Ian Botham singing "I'm not in Love" phew!

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    1. Code Monkey
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      I was hoping for something like Lord Beginner's Cricket Lovely Cricket. Imagine my disappointment!

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  2. Blofeld's Cat
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    Howzat!

    Remarkable boffinry at its finest.

    Mind you I was hoping the call would end with a satisfying >crunch< as the cricket disappeared into the mouth of a waiting Coelurosaur.

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  3. TRT Silver badge

    I remember the pre-history of cricket...

    before The Ashes.

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    1. Code Monkey
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      Uncovered wickets, Chris Tavaré, etc. and so on.

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    2. Blofeld's Cat
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      @TRT

      before The Ashes

      Right now I'd settle for "before the UAE whitewash".

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      1. TRT Silver badge
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        Hm. What would you burn for that event? Ah yes; the infidel. >:->

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  4. Anonymous John
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    I was looking for a new ringtone for my phone.

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  5. Anonymous Coward 15
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    165 million years old

    and the RIAA will still be claiming copyright on it.

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    1. Anonymous John
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      Guess I'll just have to wait for the boffins to work out what sounds the 750 million year old sponges made.

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      1. TRT Silver badge
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        Old sponges

        If the one in my old bathroom in the shared house is anything to go by, "pong!"

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  6. TeeCee Gold badge
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    Cricket songs.

    Thanks. Now I've got Booker T and the MGs on subconscious loop.....

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  7. Pirate Dave Silver badge
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    Rather tame sounding

    sounds, eh, pretty much like any other cricket. Not to pooh-pooh the fine boffinry, but as this was a JURASSIC cricket, I admit I was hoping for something more along the lines of a chainsaw cutting through a piece of sheetmetal.

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  8. Anonymous Coward
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    Fernando Montealegre-Zapata

    Any relation to Emiliano Zapata?

    Sorry I couldn't resist...

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  9. Graham Marsden
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    Katydids?

    What Katydids?

    (Sorry!)

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    1. Anonymous Coward
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      Katy lies, you can see it in her eyes....

      Name that band!!

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  10. Local Group
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    Was that a song?

    Or the introduction to Eleanor Rigby (All the Lonely Katydids)?

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  11. Anonymous Coward
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    How was it for you?

    Pretty dull, but at least you didn't eat me after ... wait, hold on a minute there ...

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    2. Local Group
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      The next time you hear that siren song, slip

      a flat ornamental skin shield on your teeny weeny cricket head, like you learned in Sex Education in your Jurassic Period (that's the period between gym and lunch.) :-)

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  12. Anonymous Coward
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    Alas, eggheads didn't consider that ancient crickets were mortal enemies of the bee

    Science has brought it back, but it's not a cricket lovesong, instead its an insectoid wail designed to drive their honey bee tormentors to madness!!

    (it would explain a lot!)

    http://money.cnn.com/2012/02/07/news/economy/honey_bees/index.htm

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