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Ancient fossil shows wasp has not evolved in 34 million years

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An ancient wasp fossil has shown that winning designs are sometimes best left alone.

Evolution has not altered the wasp in 34 million years, scientists discovered.

Three fossil specimens, the oldest examples of their species known, were discovered on the Isle of Wight in the 1920s but wrongly labelled as ants.

A new study of the fossils, housed at the Natural History Museum in London, has now confirmed their true origins.

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