Ever thought there would be a
connection between dolphins and insects? Neither did I! A hearing system
component thought to be one of a kind in toothed whales like dolphins has been identified
in insects. Scientists from the School of Biological Sciences at The University
of Auckland, with collaborators from Plant & Food Research in New Zealand,
led the research with engineers from the University of Strathclyde working on
the biomechanical aspects of the project. This result is interesting because
before this only Dolphins were speculated to use this kind of hearing component. They believe that the same method of hearing
is likely to be used by other branches of its biologic class, including
crickets and katydids, which are famous for the sounds they produce. I think
this is very interesting because it shows that even with high diversity there
is many similarities with all things on this earth.
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