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 boasts a set of flappy ...

A tiny fossil preserved in 16 million-year-old amber revealed an extinct Caribbean species that mastered the art of camouflage.

Now, a team in Brazil has uncovered a 113-million-year-old hell ant that represents the oldest hell ant specimen known to ...

A prehistoric hell ant that lived among dinosaurs 113 million years ago had an unusual way to kill its prey and sheds new light on insect evolution, researchers have found.

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...

A 113-million-year-old hell ant that once lived in northeastern Brazil is now the oldest ant specimen known to science, finds ...

Brazilian fossil hunters unearthed Earth's oldest known ant, a 113 million-year-old predator with scythe-like jaws that ...

The odd-looking specimen with scythe-like jaws indicates that early ants were spread widely across the globe while dinosaurs ...

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 boasts a set of ...

But no known wasp or any other insect does so with bizarre flaps quite ... from Capital Normal University and the Beijing Xiachong Amber Museum in China. It's unclear when the wasp went extinct.