The amber found in Romania is sometimes called rumanite, a variety prized for its deep, reddish hues. It often forms in the ...

Amber is coveted the world over as both jewelry and a vessel for prehistoric remnants, with rarer specimens preserving ...

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

Paleontologists discovered a 99-million-year-old wasp, Sirenobethylus charybdis, in Kachin amber, Myanmar. Its unusual hairy ...

While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...

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

A newly identified wasp that buzzed among the dinosaurs had a bit of a unique way of catching prey. Researchers studied 16 ...

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

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

Researchers said the species was “abundant” but “difficult to capture” as it evaded their light traps in the tree canopy.