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• Condoms and Clay: How Amazonian Cicadas Engineer Towering Mud Fortresses to Survive Metamorphosis

  Published: Apr 28, 2026

  Section: Science & Tech

  Researchers in the Brazilian Amazon have discovered that the clay towers built by Guyalna chlorogena cicadas serve as sophisticated survival tools. By using improvised latex seals...