Researchers calculated the flight ability of more than 80 ancient cicada species to analyze their evolution over time.

Eoplatypleura messelensis is the oldest known true cicada ever identified in Europe. For the first time, a fossilized true ...

An astonishing, 47 million-year-old find: scientists in Germany have uncovered and identified the fossil of a true cicada. It ...

YES, YOU CAN CERTAINLY HEAR THEIR BUZZ HERE ON CAPE COD. ONE OF THE MAIN SPOTS TO FIND THESE 17 YEAR CICADAS IN OUR AREA ...

While Illinois will experience annual cicadas in 2025, it won't see a repeat of 2024. The two periodical broods that appeared last year in the Prairie State won't emerge this year.

Cicada songs can reach 90 decibels, which is as loud as a lawn mower. ... Depending on the cicada species, they will either reappear every year or periodically (every 13 or 17 years).

The fossil record for insects in general is abundant in just a few dozen locations, and while modern cicada species are numerous today, paleontologists have documented only 44 Cicadidae fossils.

The fossil record for insects in general is abundant in just a few dozen locations, and while modern cicada species are numerous today, paleontologists have documented only 44 Cicadidae fossils.

New species of cicada discovered in tree canopy in Huboliao National Nature Reserve of Fujian Province marks China’s first record of genus ...

New species of cicada discovered in tree canopy in Huboliao National Nature Reserve of Fujian Province marks China’s first record of genus ...

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 fossilized ...