Isabel Wherry tells PEOPLE her daughter named the cicada, Cicady Jordan Greene is Society and Culture writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously ...

(NEXSTAR) – 2024 brought us “cicada-geddon,” a double awakening of two broods of periodical cicadas that swarmed much of the eastern United States over the spring and summer. The noisy ...

Tulyasuk sent them to scientists, who took a closer look at the animals and quickly realized they’d discovered a new species: Oligodon cicadophagus, or the cicada-eating kukri snake. An Oligodon ...