I remember watching “Gone With the Wind” for the first time on my parents' back porch, the cicadas and katydids weaving a ...

South Carolina became the first state since 2010 to execute an inmate by firing squad. Is the method legal in Mississippi?

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

Look out for the Black Bazas and Japanese Sparrowhawks during the migratory period from November to March, or raptors such as ...

Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.

Cicadas, those loud, large but harmless insects, will soon emerge this spring after 17 years underground in Georgia.

Get ready for an insect phenomenon that has been 17 years in the making. Starting this spring, when temperatures are warm enough, parts of the eastern United States will witness the emergence of Brood ...

It’s not clear whether the orca is a true albino or its white coloring was caused by another medical condition.

The numbers 13 and 17 are also prime numbers, and so-called “periodical” cicadas have life cycles of exactly 13 or 17 years. This year, trillions of those creatures are emerging in various U.S ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination, we explore what race means in the 21st century. Marcia and Millie Biggs say they’ve never been subjected to racism ...