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Venus Flytrap Wasp: 99-Million-Year-Old Amber Reveals Bizarre New Species

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.

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