The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago

A 47-million-year-old cicada fossil from Germany’s Messel Pit could teach us about the evolution of insect communication.

The first cicada concert was 47 million years ago – Monkey Viral

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. The fossil represents a new cicada species, Eoplatypleura messelensis, which lived about 47.2 million years ago. The discovery pushes back the timeline for when cicadas started to sing by about 17 […]

47 million years ago, the first concert was played in the presence of cicadas

During the Eocene era, cicadas were making music, as indicated by the earliest known fossil of a singing cicada that predates human...