However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped abdominal setup similar to the leaves of a Venus flytrap. The paddle-like lower ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilise their prey. Research, ...

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

They estimate the specimens, collected from the Kachin region in northern Myanmar, date to 98.79 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period. Holotype of Sirenobethylus charybdis.

They estimate the specimens, collected from the Kachin region in northern Myanmar, date to 98.79 million years ago during the mid-Cretaceous period. The morphology of the wasps indicates that they ...

“Our findings suggest that Chrysidoidea displayed a wider range of parasitoid strategies in the mid-Cretaceous than they do today,” they wrote. Personally, given the vast array of parasites ...

Cerapodans were small, plant-eating dinosaurs that scampered around on two legs. Come the Cretaceous, the fossil record tells us they were all across the planet, but their movements during the ...