{"id":215597,"date":"2025-06-07T21:09:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-discover-creature-beyond-imagination-in-99-million-year-old-amber"},"modified":"2025-06-07T21:09:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T02:09:12","slug":"scientists-discover-creature-beyond-imagination-in-99-million-year-old-amber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/scientists-discover-creature-beyond-imagination-in-99-million-year-old-amber","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover creature \u2018beyond imagination\u2019 in 99 million-year-old amber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-creature-beyond-imagination-in-99-million-year-old-amber.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know <a data-linked-post=\"2670759409\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/science-tech\/dinosaur-footprint-highway-oxfordshire-uk\" class=\"\">dinosaurs<\/a> were around 99 million years ago, but now new research has identified a kind of parasitic <a data-linked-post=\"2663850458\" href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/tiktok\/wasp-rings-doorbell-camera-texas\" class=\"\">wasp<\/a> that was flying around back then (and which has a strange way of catching its prey).<\/p>\n<p>The species now called Sirenobethylus charybdis had a bizarre mechanism that worked like a Venus flytrap which caught the prey, and then the wasps impregnated them with their eggs, researchers noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/s12915-025-02190-2\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">journal BMC Biology.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 that worked like a Venus flytrap which caught the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}