Scientists have discovered a extinct parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap inside a 99-million-year ...
"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...
However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...
An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...
Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...
A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...
Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...
Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.
An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...
An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...
A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...
The recently discovered Sirenobethylus charybdis has features not seen in any known insect living today, researchers say.