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A Jurassic soundscape is reconstructed from 165-million-year-old wings

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Researchers reconstructed a Jurassic soundscape from 165-million-year-old insect wings, recovering ultrasonic calls from eons before bats, while a project decoded vocalizations across 9,000 bird species.

Reported metric: 9,000 species

Reporting date: 2026-08-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to August 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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Earth Species Project

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A Jurassic soundscape is reconstructed from 165-million-year-old wings
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Reporting date: 2026-08-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-08-29-a-jurassic-soundscape-reconstructed
Claim: Researchers reconstructed a Jurassic soundscape from 165-million-year-old insect wings, recovering ultrasonic calls from eons before bats, while a project decoded vocalizations across 9,000 bird species.
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- Welcome to August 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-august-29-2026
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