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

Scientists named the new wasp Sirenobethylus charybdis, partly for the sea monster from Greek mythology that stirred up wild ...

"Nothing similar is known from any other insect." Researchers have discovered an extinct parasitic wasp preserved in amber ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...

Meet Sirenobethylus charybdis, a wasp that the team half-jokingly called a ‘Cretaceous flytrap’ for its rear being shaped ...

Scientists discovered an ancient wasp species, Sirenobethylus charybdis, preserved in 99-million-year-old amber from Myanmar. The wasp's structure resembles a Venus flytrap, believed to have been used ...

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis—both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that ...

The previously unknown species, now named Sirenobethylus charybdis, had a Venus flytrap-like structure on its abdomen that could have allowed it to trap other insects, the researchers reported ...