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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen ... with the apparatus open for a potential ...

possesses a unique abdomen resembling a Venus flytrap, likely used to capture prey. This parasitic wasp, unearthed from the Kachin region, displays a set of bristled, paddle-like appendages on its ...

This ancient parasitic wasp's back end boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles - resembling "a small bear trap attached to the end of it," says study co-author Lars Vilhelmsen from ...