An ancient wasp may have zipped among the dinosaurs, with a body like a Venus flytrap to seize and snatch its prey, ...

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one ...

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

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

An ancient wasp may have used an odd structure at its rear end to capture insects and lay its eggs on or inside of them, ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

This means around 150,000 of our insect species do not have formal scientific names. We know little about where they are and what they do in ecosystems—vital information for stopping ...

This means around 150,000 of our insect species do not have formal scientific names. We know little about where they are and what they do in ecosystems — vital information for stopping biodiversity ...

“There’s no way you can know how an insect that died 100 million years ago was living. So you look for analogs in modern insect fauna. Do we have anything among wasps or other groups that ...