A parasitic wasp that flew among dinosaurs had a Venus flytrap-like contraption on its abdomen that likely allowed it to ...

This photo provided by Qiong Wu in March 2025 shows an ancient wasp, preserved in amber from Myanmar, whose back end resembles a Venus flytrap plant. (Qiong Wu via AP) 32,355 people played the ...

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

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. This photo provided by Qiong Wu in March 2025 shows an ancient wasp, preserved in amber from Myanmar, whose ...

It’s a playbook adapted by many parasitic wasps, including modern-day cuckoo and bethylid wasps, to exploit insects. But no known wasp or any other insect does so with bizarre flaps quite like ...

For example, a group of wasps known as cuckoo wasps lay their eggs in the nest of another wasp species ... on the host’s body and likely ended up eating the host entirely, Vilhelmsen said.