The scarlet velvet ant is very well known for its extremely painful sting. Less well known is that the velvet ant is not actually an ant at all—it is a type of wingless parasitic wasp.

Preserved in amber, the wasp appears to have used a Venus flytrap-like structure on its body to grasp potential hosts.

Perhaps most disturbingly, the researchers detected a needle-like structure that the parasitic wasps might have used to deposit their eggs in or on their prey. The baby wasps would then feed on ...

(CNN) — A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs ... Why were these wasps unable to simply rely on their stings or incorporate their mouthparts into host capture ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs ... Why were these wasps unable to simply rely on their stings or incorporate their mouthparts into host capture as living ...