BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — With bright colors, deceptive shapes and sweet aromas, carnivorous plants lure insects only to trap ...

Scientists have discovered a extinct parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap inside a 99-million-year ...

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

A unique parasitic wasp from 99 million years ago, preserved in Cretaceous period amber, featured a Venus flytrap-like structure on its abdomen. This structure likely allowed the wasp, named ...

Video: Ancient parasitic wasp had bum like a Venus Flytrap to catch prey This ancient parasitic wasp's back end boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles - resembling "a small bear ...

A new study, published in BMC Biology, discovered prehistoric wasp preserved in amber is turning heads in the world of entomology with a rear end straight out of a science fiction movie. With a ...

The remarkable insect, found in northern Myanmar, possesses a unique abdomen resembling a Venus flytrap, likely used to capture prey. This parasitic wasp, unearthed from the Kachin region ...

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

charybdis was its abdomen, which bore a strong resemblance to a Venus flytrap plant ... charybdis warrant the establishment of a new insect family, Sirenobethylidae, due to hind wing vein patterns ...

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

A previously unknown species of wasp with an abdomen reminiscent of a Venus flytrap has been discovered in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber, and entomologists have never seen anything like it.

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