Digitally Recreated Song Of Long-Lost Insect Could Be The Key To Its Rediscovery

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The P. obscura's sole specimen is housed at the London Natural History Museum (Credit: www.nhm.ac.uk)

The Prophalangopsis obscura (P. obscura) is one of only eight remaining descendants of an ancient katydid family of over 90-known species that lived during the Jurassic period (199.6 million to 145.5 million years ago). However, there is only one known specimen of the grasshopper-like insect. It was discovered in India in the mid-1800s and later donated to London's Natural History Museum. Scientists have now digitally recreated the P. obscura's long-lost call in the hopes of locating the insects in the wild.

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