A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...
Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.
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Creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists sayA newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...
A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey
An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...
A newly identified wasp that buzzed among the dinosaurs had a bit of a unique way of catching prey. Researchers studied 16 ...
"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 ...
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99-Million-Year-Old Parasitic Wasp With A ‘Venus Flytrap’ Abdomen Found Preserved In Amber"Nothing similar is known from any other insect." Researchers have discovered an extinct parasitic wasp preserved in amber ...
Scientists named the new wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis, partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild whirlpools by swallowing and expelling water. The new study was ...
Meet Sirenobethylus charybdis, a wasp that the team half-jokingly called a ‘Cretaceous flytrap’ for its rear being shaped like the fly-gobbling plant. ‘Nothing similar is known from any ...
Paleontologists discovered a 99-million-year-old wasp, Sirenobethylus charybdis, in Kachin amber, Myanmar. Its unusual hairy ...
"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 ...
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