When the Earth Started to Sing – David G. Haskell
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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Paleontologists Have So Far Found No Precious Devices on Any Sea Creature
From 200 million years ago, the trilling and chirping of insects were joined by a rich assemblage of amphibian and reptile sounds. Paleontologists have so far found no fossilized rasping, stridulating or precussive devices on any sea creature from the first four or 500 million years of animal evolution. The head of the nine meter long parasora lopus bore a long, backward extending crest. Air pipes looped within this crest like a head mounted tuber.
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