All this upheaval is like a cicada emerging from its exoskeleton, a butterfly unfolding from a chrysalis. Upheaval, storms, and uncertainty in life give new beginnings and roads ahead. I’ve missed you ...

Fossils reveal that prehistoric cicadas’ wings evolved to help them evade hungry predators with feathers and beaks, scientists say. By Jack Tamisiea Today, few critters are as abundant as cicadas.

Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

When dinosaurs thundered across the land, a giant, cicada-like bug called Palaeontinidae flew in the sky and fed on tree sap. But something disturbed its peaceful existence — and triggered the ...

In late September, seven years to the day the crispy shells of a mass cicada brood last littered NSW’s Blue Mountains, an army of nymphs arose once more. “The big emergence was the night of ...

Silvia Moreno-Garcia is a Canadian author, who was born and raised in Mexico. She has written several speculative fiction ...

A recent study on global giant cicadas by Chinese scientists has provided novel insight on the adaptive aerodynamic evolution of Palaeontinidae, and supports the hypothesis of an aerial ...

One exceptionally reliable analog in nature to New Hampshire politics is the mass emergence in the wild of what scientists refer to as Periodical Cicadas. Quite reliably, overwhelming numbers of ...

The zombie cicada fungus, Massospora cicadina, has also received a lot of attention in recent years. It infects and controls periodical cicadas, which are cicadas that live underground and emerge ...

A new ransomware group, Cicada3301, has emerged as a significant threat since its discovery in June 2024, targeting businesses in critical sectors across the US and UK. In just three months, the group ...