Scientists discover creature ‘beyond imagination’ encased in 99 million-year-old amber

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We know dinosaurs were around 99 million years ago, but now new research has identified a kind of parasitic wasp that was flying around back then (and which has a strange way of catching its prey). The species now called Sirenobethylus charybdis had a bizarre mechanism was a Venus flytrap-like tail which caught the prey, and then the wasps impregnated them with their eggs, researchers noted in the journal BMC Biology. How was this new species discovered? Preserved in amber from the Cretaceous period, palaeontologists were able to analyse 16 specimens of the tiny wasps discovered in Myanmar. “When I...