Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology and professor of entomology at the University of California, Davis, has discovered a shiny black wasp that appears to be the "Komodo dragon" of the wasp family.
"The male measures about two-and-a-half-inches long," Kimsey said. “Its jaws are so large that they wrap up either side of the head when closed. When the jaws are open they are actually longer than the male’s front legs. I don’t know how it can walk. The females are smaller but still larger than other members of their subfamily, Larrinae.”