An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture and immobilize their prey. Research, ...

A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

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

According to the Agence France-Presse ( AFP ), Yana’s examiners described the roughly four-foot-tall calf as smelling like a ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to researchers.

As caretakers of preserved plants collected by generations of naturalists, the herbaria chronicle the botanical history of ...

Paleontologists studied 16 specimens of the tiny wasp preserved in amber dating back to the Cretaceous period that was previously unearthed in Myanmar. The previously unknown species, now named ...

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...

charybdis specimens preserved in amber dated to 98.79 million years ago. These specimens were collected from the Kachin region in northern Myanmar. They found the species was likely to have been a ...