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 ...

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 ...

Those of you who don't have damp, dark places in your home probably have no idea what I'm talking about. But when I yell from the basement for my husband to "Come quick!" my family knows exactly what ...

The pest goes by many names. I have a friend who calls them mutant spiders. The exterminator at my neighbor's house calls them criders. The bug is also called spider cricket, spricket, cave cricket ...

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 ...