The recently discovered Sirenobethylus charybdis has features not seen in any known insect living today, researchers say.

Paleontologists have discovered a disturbing new species of ancient wasp that restrained its prey using its Venus flytrap-like abdomen before laying eggs in the victim. The parasite, named ...

A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

Modern-day parasitoids of the superfamily Chrysidoidea include cuckoo wasps and bethylid wasps. However, the S. charybdis ...