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

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 ...

"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 entomologist.

Scientists recently made a fascinating discovery involving amber, a substance known for preserving ancient organisms.

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to immobilise other insects ...

charybdis specimen in amber A S. charybdis specimen in amber ... think that the wasp likely preyed upon small jumping insects to serve as a host for its larvae. "We imagine it would have waited ...

Amber fossils have been some of paleontology ... The “Cretaceous weirdo” Sirenobethylus charybdis adds to a growing list of insects from that time that “had adaptations that are outside ...

New Jersey Institute of Technology researchers uncover evidence of 16-million-year-old ant from the Caribbean.

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped abdominal setup similar to the leaves of a Venus flytrap. The paddle-like lower ...

Imagine holding a piece of golden resin in your hand, only to discover that inside, time itself has been trapped—along with ...

Meet Sirenobethylus charybdis, a wasp that the team half-jokingly called a ‘Cretaceous flytrap’ for its rear being shaped like the fly-gobbling plant. ‘Nothing similar is known from any other insect,’ ...

Some lights draw more bugs than others. Here's what the science says about which types of bulbs you should buy to keep from ...