Cicada season is dawning across the eastern US, this time with Brood XIV resurfacing for the first time since 2008. But as ...

For the last 17 years, a group of cicadas known as Brood XIV has been buried several inches underground, doing very little.

Communities in Missouri and Illinois, however, can rest easy as none of the brood's members are located in either of the ...

For the first time, a fossilized true cicada has been described from the Messel Pit deposits. Eoplatypleura messelensis is ...

Cicadas and locusts may both swarm and buzz, but they’re very different insects. Here's how to tell them apart.

Sadly, hundreds of bird species have gone extinct in the past few centuries. Here’s one example, and the story of how it ...