The parasitic wasp’s abdomen boasts a set of flappy paddles lined with thin bristles, resembling “a small bear trap attached to the end of it,” said study co-author Lars Vilhelmsen from the Natural History Museum of Denmark.

A new study, published in BMC Biology, discovered prehistoric wasp preserved in amber is turning heads in the world of entomology with a rear end straight out of a science fiction movie. With a bizarre Venus flytrap-shaped abdomen,