In 2014, scientists discovered 139 new species in the Greater Mekong region of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam. One of them is a vicious wasp that kills its victims by turning them into ...

Dementor wasps now exist thanks to museum patrons in Germany. Roughly 300 people voted to name an obscure wasp species from southeast Asia after the creatures from the "Harry Potter" novels. J.K.

Add this to my nightmare list: A creature that turns prey into a zombie, then eats it alive. That's pretty much the M.O. of Ampulex dementor, a wasp named after the mythical "Harry Potter" creatures ...

When you put the naming of a newly-discovered creature up for popular vote, you can never quite be sure what you're going to get. Such is the case in Berlin, where a new species of wasp has been named ...

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In a move that’s either terrifying or maniacally clever, a Wisconsin man has been flying a menacing, dementor-esque figure via drone, thus upping the ante when it comes to Halloween pranks this year.

It’s the stuff of nightmares – a newly-discovered wasp that turns cockroaches into zombies. The Ampulex Dementor, named after the terrifying soul-suckers from the “Harry Potter” movies, is one of a ...

Branding can get you everywhere, even if you’re just a bug. Boy, does the “Ampulex dementor” wasp know it. Over a year ago, officially, no one was aware that it even existed. But on Wednesday, Harry ...