When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Singing Insect Wings
An extinct cricket like species from 270 million years ago called permo los is the first known singer on land. Ancestors of modern crickets and catidids with ever more precisely crafted sound making ridges on their wings. Reptiles later also modified the larynx into a sound maker. Modern reptilian speech s hint at what would have been possible. Crocodile youngsters chirp at their mothers and mating adults bellow. Gecos chatter with calls richly layred with harmonics. Anim legs scrabbled on sand and soil. Fins and flappers paddled the water and mouths crunched on food. But the vocal planet that we inhabit to day is
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