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Wasp, amber and Venus Flytrap

Wasp preserved in 99 million-year-old amber ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young, according to new research.

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99-million-year-old Amber Reveals Wasp With Venus Flytrap Rear End

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 bizarre Venus flytrap-shaped abdomen,

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Parasitic Wasp That Caught Prey in 'Venus Flytrap' Body Discovered in Amber

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their prey before hiding the body and laying eggs into the poor victim.)

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Bizarre creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say

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