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A 'Cretaceous Weirdo': The Venus Flytrap WaspScientists have discovered a extinct parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap inside a 99-million-year ...
Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.
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, ...
"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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A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...
A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...
Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...
The recently discovered Sirenobethylus charybdis has features not seen in any known insect living today, researchers say.
Smithsonian Magazine on MSN8d
Ancient, Parasitic Wasp Used Its Rear End Like a Venus Flytrap to Catch Insects and Lay Its Eggs on Them, Study SuggestsResearchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in ...
An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN8d
99-million-year-old Amber Reveals Wasp With Venus Flytrap Rear EndA new study, published in BMC Biology, discovered prehistoric wasp preserved in amber is turning heads in the world of ...
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