A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

"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 ...

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

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...

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.

This ancient parasitic wasp's back end boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles - resembling "a small bear ...