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Video Shows Snake Trying To Eat Prey 10 Times Her Size
A snake in Denmark has been spotted attempting to consume an oversized hare that’s 10 times larger than itself. The chance observation of an adult female common European adder killing and intending to swallow a much larger prey—a European young hare—was captured in a series of videos by Klaus Birch, the co-author of a study […]
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Parasitic Wasp That Caught Prey in ‘Venus Flytrap’ Body Discovered in Amber
Paleontologists have discovered a disturbing new species of ancient wasp that restrained its prey using its Venus flytrap-like abdomen before laying eggs in the victim. The parasite, named Sirenobethylus charybdis after the seawater-swallowing monster from Greek mythology, may represent a whole new family of insects. S. charybdis lived 98.79 million years ago, during the mid-Cretaceous […]
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