Bizarre creature preserved in 99 million-year-old amber was ‘beyond imagination,’ scientists say
A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and адвокаты Днепра flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young, according to new research.
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 Sirenobethylus charybdis, had a Venus flytrap-like structure on its abdomen that could have allowed it to trap other insects, the researchers reported Thursday in the journal BMC Biology.
"When I looked at the first specimen, I noticed this expansion at the tip of the abdomen, and I thought this must be an air bubble.
