Whether for an awkward silence or on a quiet summer night, there is one animal that can be counted on to fill the void with noise: crickets. The notoriously loud insects rub parts of their body ...

The spider cricket is a common American pest. This insect gets its name from its spindly, spider-like legs, but it’s not a true spider. This pest typically lives in caves and forests, but it can ...

CAVE CITY, Ky. (AP) - Kurt Helf crawled through Mammoth Cave National Park, holding a humidity-measuring device in one hand and a camera in the other. He leaned in awkward positions parallel to ...

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Cave crickets travel farther from their homes to forage -- by about double -- than their previously reported range, researchers have discovered. In Texas, that means protective ...

Although other studies on cave-dwelling creatures have found that animals that spend all of their lives in the dark of caves are more likely to be genetically isolated, a recent study on two groups of ...

People sometimes rely on the stereotype of a kid living in their parents' basement to illustrate poor socialization and isolation. But the basement-dwellers may be connected with others in ways that ...