Hopelessly-romantic crickets can be tricked into serenading at unusual times — it’s one of the fascinating but poorly understood impacts of total solar eclipses. On April 8, a total solar eclipse will ...

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When darkness sweeps across the landscape during a total solar eclipse, unusual things start happening. Fooled by the false dusk, birds stop singing, crickets start chirping, and bees return to their ...

A massive citizen science project will study how the animal kingdom reacts to April 8’s total solar eclipse. Here’s how and where to partake. A crowd watches as thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats ...