Tim Wangler, 8, gets a close look at a 17-year cicada June 11, 1990, in Elmhurst. At the time, the photographer informed Tim he'd be 25 the next time the cicadas returned. (James Mayo/Chicago Tribune) ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Every year in the United States, a certain family of insects emerges from the ground to spend the summer months eating, breeding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This fossil of an adult female cicada is remarkably well preserved. It was found in the Messel Pit in Germany, in rocks that are ...

If bugs make you queasy, then take a second and look away, because this cicada video is something else. On June 3, Richelle Smart shared video of a massive cicada swarm that invaded her porch in ...

Greta Bailey knew her 4-year-old son’s cicada discovery was quite the find — but it wasn’t until after the family released it that they realized just how “rare” it was. So the search was on for the ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- A rare blue-eyed cicada found by a suburban family has been donated to Chicago's Field Museum. A 4-year-old, Jack Bailey, from Wheaton discovered it. His sister noticed it had blue ...

The oldest known fossil of a singing cicada reveals that these insects were making music during the Eocene epoch — long before humans existed. “The fossil has been in the collection of the Senckenberg ...

(CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters) long with a wingspan of 2.7 inches (68.2 millimeters), its ...