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World's Oldest Love Song Recreated

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  • 12-02-2012 2:57pm
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    Galvasean
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    Just in time for Valentine's day heh? :pac:
    The love song of an extinct katydid that lived 165 million years ago has been brought back to life, according to a study in the latest issue of PNAS. The song is thought to be the most ancient known music documented to date.

    The song was reconstructed from microscopic wing features on a fossil discovered in North East China. It allows us to listen to one of the sounds that would have been heard by dinosaurs and other creatures roaming Jurassic forests at night.

    A veritable symphony of natural sounds must have filled the world 165 million years ago, with primitive crickets and croaking amphibians leading the way. These were among the first animals to produce loud sounds by stridulation, or rubbing certain body parts together.

    Read more here.
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    Rubecula
    Registered Users Posts: 8,551 ✭✭✭Rubecula


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Just in time for Valentine's day heh? :pac:



    Read more here.

    LOL

    I have to admit, these reproductions are very dubious in my mind. We know that in this case for example, the creature made a sound by rubbing it's wing cases together? Well no, but we can assume it it. We know at what frequency it rubbed its wing cases together, well no we don't know that either. We don't know if there was a set pattern to the noise either ( a melody if you like)

    It is all good research, don't get me wrong and I can see it in the same light as everyone else. But I am never sure that they actually made the sounds we think they did. We may be spot on, but I fear we are more likely to be totally wrong.


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    Adam Khor
    Registered Users Posts: 5,279 ✭✭✭Adam Khor


    Galvasean wrote: »
    Just in time for Valentine's day heh? :pac:



    Read more here.

    Aaw such a sweet song, remind me to sing it to my next girlfriend :D

    Regardless of what you may say, I find this sort of thing fascinating- the Parasaurolophus crest song may not be exactly like the real thing, but it sounds eerie and impressive enough to belong to a prehistoric world very different from ours.


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