Part of the ancient wasp's body resembles the structure of the carnivorous Venus flytrap plant, which snaps shut to ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

A new study, published in BMC Biology, discovered prehistoric wasp preserved in amber is turning heads in the world of ...

If you ever travel back in time to the reign of dinosaurs, don’t touch any flowers – it might just be a parasitic wasp in ...

Lizards in amber are extremely rare—so rare that a single intact specimen can bring hundreds of thousands of dollars on the collectors' market. This gecko may have been eyeing a tasty insect ...

several years ago and donated it to Capital Normal University’s Key Laboratory of Insect Evolution and Environmental Changes in 2016, the authors said. Amber fossils have been some of ...

Off she skimmed with her companions, winding through the shadowy, towering amber forest ... especially one well-adapted predator, the resin bug, a large, hairy-legged creature endowed with ...

A Venus Flytrap Wasp? Scientists Uncover an Ancient Insect Preserved in Amber That Snatched Its Prey NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus ...

Scientists uncovered over a dozen female wasps preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from the Kachin region ... which snaps shut to digest unsuspecting insects. But the design of the wasp ...