Paleontologists have discovered a disturbing new species of ancient wasp that restrained its prey using its Venus ...

Like bees, each wasp species is either social or solitary. Those that prefer family life build nests to house themselves and their colony. Most social wasps aren't particularly fussy when it comes to ...

(CN) — Scientists have unearthed a 99-million-year-old wasp preserved in amber that they say represents not just a new species but an entirely new family of insects from the mid-Cretaceous period.

A previously unknown species of wasp with an abdomen reminiscent of a Venus flytrap has been discovered in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber, and entomologists have never seen anything like it.