An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to ...

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their eggs in the nests of their hosts) and bethylid wasps (which paralyze their ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

An international team of paleontologists and Earth scientists has identified fossilized remains as a two-clawed therizinosaur ...

Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest ...

The species, named Duonychus tsogtbaatari, belongs to a group of two-legged dinosaurs called therizinosaurs that lived in ...

With two-fingered hands and long "nasty" claws, the Duonychus tsogtbaatari is certainly a strange sight. Fossils of this dinosaur were recently unearthed in Mongolia's Gobi Desert while a water ...

A new dinosaur species, Duonychus tsogtbaatari, was discovered in Mongolia's Gobi Desert. This therizinosaurs member featured ...

A 99-million-year-old amber fossil captures a prehistoric 'hell ant' devouring its prey, providing the first-ever glimpse ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...