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. [Click Title to Read More]
fakescience: Thanks to DNA, theme parks, and mosquitoes, there’s a high probability we’ll be able to turn into dinosaurs in the near future. But which dinosaur would you be? Take our second quiz to find out.
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Dino island has everything! Most importantly, it has DINOS.
But a lamb, JESUS, and all the holy water you can CHUG, too? AND someone singing “Skeet skeet skeet, y’all Christians!”?
Looks like this deserted island isn’t so deserted.
And kind of bizarre…Give this kid an A+ !
I’d bring back lots of dinosaurs and/or dinosaur eggs.
Because I bet they’d taste *really* good and everyone would want to pay TOP DOLLAR for some dinomeat.
AND I’D HAVE THE MONOPOLY ON DINOCHICKEN! *evil laughter*
It was very interesting…
I spent 30 months there…just me and little mammals and ferns and dinosaurs. Didn’t mean to go that far back but time travel is hard!
I have to tell you, it’s great to be back. I thought I had enough of people but I missed humans so much after two and a half years basically all on my own.
And I found out what really killed the dinosaurs!…they were actually quite intelligent and the fast tiny ones hunted the big ones to extinction with their little lasers…and when there were no more other dinos to hunt, they turned on themselves…so sad. An entire intelligent species killed itself out with war…
I think there is a lesson to be learned from all that. You know???
Well I’m leaving for my trip in exactly 3 weeks (when you time travel, it’s hard to get your mind focused on exactly the right time so I actually arrived 3 weeks before I even left!) I’m making sure not to see my present self (I’m sure THAT would cause all sorts of trouble!) so I’m hiding out at a hotel with a Wi-Fi connection and ordering pizza until the ‘other me’ invents time travel and leaves for the trip…
I’m sure in 3 weeks you will get a post from me saying I invented a way to time travel back and forth through what most people would call ‘time’ and everything…not believing me, of course. How could you believe something so fantastic? But I did…err…I **will** and it’s going to be the best experience a person can have. I may share it with the world when the time is right. I just don’t want us to end up like those mean little dinosaurs.
Did you know Tesla invented a hover car about 100 years ago? Yeah…the government hid that fact and the technology is now used for stealth bombers. You know it’s impossible for them to fly under ‘normal’ methods. They would run out of fuel WAY before they land. While in the air they use Tesla’s antigravity hover technology…so that shows what just one person can do. But I digress…
See ya in 3 weeks when I get to leave this box they call a hotel! In the meantime, the ‘other-Keith’ will surely keep you all entertained.
Until then!
