APRIL FOOL'S DAY

How to prank adults on April Fools' Day with a text message.

In honor of April 1, 2014, learn theories of the history behind April Fools' Day and other facts and trivia about the worldwide pranking holiday.

Google partnered with Nintendo and Pokémon to create a new Google Maps challenge for April Fools' Day.

Here are 12 April Fools Day pranks to trick those closest to you.

The Mall of America intentionally released 72,000 ladybugs into its indoor facilities this week.

Google had plenty of April Fools' Day pranks including Gmail Blue, Google Nose Beta and Treasure Mode for Google Maps.

More companies than ever participated in the fun, and here's a roundup of the 30 best.

The Guardian, the Washington Post and ABC were just a few of the media companies that tried their hand at April Fools' Day pranks on Monday.

Science journals, astronauts and TV astronomers have all found ways to get a laugh on April 1.

The Pirate Bay played its own April Fools' Day prank by announcing they moved their servers to the United States.

In an unprecedented move sure to shake up the world of particle physics, CERN announced it will give away its fundamental Higgs boson particles to 10 lucky winners.

A tracing of April Fools' Day origins and where else the prank holiday is celebrated.

Scope Bacon mouthwash is a new dental hygiene product, if the folks behind an ad campaign are to believed.

The worst kind of April Fools' prank is the kind you wish was true; former Google exec tells Chinese that Facebook and Twitter are unblocked.

In an elaborate April Fools' Day prank, YouTube executives announced that the site will shut down to review its best videos and relaunch in 2023.

Twitter has announced a new “two-tiered service” called “Twttr” that allows users to tweet only with consonants.

Statistically speaking, the cost of the New York Yankees Opening Day lineup will reflect the change in the club between last year and this year.

Easter and April Fool's Day are two of spring's biggest holidays, and a rumor has been spreading virally online that in 2013 these two occasions fall on the same date. Is it true that these celebrations both take place on the same day this year?

Barcelona football player Gerard Pique mischievoulsy tweeted about the "birth" of his son on Spain's Day of the Holy Innocents, leading fans to believe that Shakira was still pregnant.

Sometimes, on April Fools' Day, it's difficult to decipher the pranks from the truth online. One such example came from online consumer electronics retailer Tiger Direct with an elaborate advertisement for the mini nuke Kube X15, the World's First Home Mini-Nuclear Generator, which could possibly be the best, or worst, April Fools' Day prank ever.

Google's latest April Fools' Day prank turns Google Maps into an 8-bit video game playable on the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).