This story appears in the June 2015 issue of National Geographic magazine. The eye is an organ of extreme perfection. I have a strong interest in evolution, and eyes have developed stunning ...

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and ...

Trillions of evolution's bizarro wonders, red-eyed periodical cicadas that have ... but a pump in the cicada's head allows the bug to get fluid that it otherwise wouldn't be able to get out ...

When states can expect the winged creatures depends on the weather. As ground temperatures warm to 64 degrees, the cicadas will emerge for the first time in 17 years. The first states to get cicadas ...

The red-eyed menace known as the “periodical cicada” has local scientists confidently predicting that the flying insects will definitely appear in Maryland this year. And that they definitely won’t.

The NZ velvet worm won this year’s New Zealand Bug of the Year competition, a less than scientific social experiment held every year by the Entomological Society of New Zealand to test the ...