With its furry exterior and distinct black and white markings, the insect “looks like magic,” Vinicius Lopez, an entomologist at the Federal University of Triângulo Mineiro in Brazil ...

After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens, researchers believe the extinct wasp species featured Venus flytrap-like abdomen appendages for capturing other insects. Once pinned ...

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its ... trigger hairs (black arrows) and needle-like device for depositing eggs (orange arrows).