Animals had no trouble grabbing headlines in 2025, from a close encounter with a whale off the coast of Chile to viral bald ...

This story was updated to correct the date of the crash. Cicadas are proving to be a bigger terror (aside from their ear-piercing screams and chaotic flying patterns ...

In an extremely rare natural phenomenon, two different cicada broods will explode from the ground at the same time this year. Some species of cicadas are periodical, spending most of their lives ...

Despite their loud mating songs and intimidating appearance, cicadas are not dangerous. “All they do is just climb up on trees and pee. That’s as much damage as they do,” sa ...

Over the next few weeks, trillions of cicadas will emerge from underground in over a dozen states. Periodical cicadas, the insects famous for their huge numbers and loud noise, are emerging in two ...

For many Americans, the cicadas are here. Trillions of periodical cicadas are already emerging in a rare, two brood event across multiple states, with more expected to come in the following weeks.

Have you hit a cicada while driving 50 mph? The bugs leave a messy splatter mark on your vehicle. And when they collide into your windshield at 60-plus mph, there’s an explosion of bug guts that can ...

Earlier this year, the U.S. was introduced to murder hornets, fierce predators that can decapitate an entire honey bee hive in hours. But these rare, invasive insects (which have only been spotted in ...

Their mating songs can reach up to 90 decibels. In April 2004, "Mean Girls" was playing in theaters and "Yeah!" by Usher was topping the Billboard music charts. At the same time, around the ...

The spring of 2021 will bring the emergence of Cicada Brood X, a 17-year periodical cicada. These cicadas will number in the billions and will emerge across 15 states, including Indiana. With billions ...

In one of history’s weird coincidences, the second summer of a global pandemic brought Johns Hopkins biologist Ethan Allen Andrews out on a Baltimore lawn to watch the massive Brood X cicada mating ...

This story contains interviews with Tekknolagi, the student who solved the Cicada 3301 puzzle. In January I wrote a story about the one person who is known to have made it further down the Cicada 3301 ...