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.

Cretaceous. There were dinosaurs, fine. They were even in Antarctica, which was covered in temperate rainforest, lovely. My brain is struggling to grapple with the latest addition to this otherworldly image,