Wingless Wasp (IMAGE)

Oregon State University

Wingless Wasp

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This ancient wasp without wings lived at the base of trees while dinosaurs wondered around above it, and is the only known specimen in a newly-created family of Hymenoptera.

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(Photo by George Poinar, Jr., courtesy of Oregon State University)

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