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Monstrous 99-Million-Year-Old Wasp Had Inbuilt "Venus Flytrap" For Snatching VictimsMy brain is struggling to grapple with the latest addition to this otherworldly image, however, as scientists have revealed to the world amber fossils of a wasp that was basically wearing a Venus ...
At a glance it looks ... open, and some were closed up. The lower flap is covered with spines, and on the very tip are a dozen hair-like bristles. It looks suspiciously like a Venus flytrap ...
An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch ... it would have waited with the apparatus open, ready to pounce as soon as a potential ...
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A 'Cretaceous Weirdo': The Venus Flytrap WaspScientists have discovered a extinct parasitic wasp with an abdomen that worked like a Venus flytrap inside a 99-million-year-old piece of amber.
The wasps, which lived almost 99 million years ago, might have launched backward at their insect targets, then grasped them within their Venus flytrap-like abdomens. “It’s unlike anything I’ ...
An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like ... a Venus flytrap plant. / Credit: Qiong Wu / AP "We imagine it would have waited with the apparatus open, ready to pounce ...
A Venus flytrap wasp? Scientists uncover an ancient insect preserved in amber that snatched its prey
NEW YORK (AP) — An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, scientists reported Wednesday. The parasitic wasp’s abdomen ...
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