Research by Dr Fernando Montealegre-Z and Professor Daniel Robert in the School of Biological Sciences that recreated the love song of a 165 million-year-old cricket was covered by media around the world including The Guardian, New Scientist, BBC News, New York Daily News, The Vancouver Sun, The Irish Times, Le Figaro, Discover magazine, LiveScience, Planet Earth, Nature News, ABC Online, Cosmos Magazine, Australia, Scienza & Tecnica, ANSA, Italy, Wired Science, Asahi Shimbun, Japan,and Folha de Sao Paulo, Brazil.   

Dr Montealegre-Z was interviewed by a number of broadcast media including BBC Radio 4, BBC World Service, Radio Nacional, Colombia, RTVE Spain, Nationwide German Public Radio (Deutschlandfunk), Voice of America's Science and Asahi TV, Japan. 

The research, published in PNAS, was carried out in collaboration with colleagues from China and the US. 

Full press release: Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song

 

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