There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...

Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

Nature's ingenuity shines through carnivorous plants, which have evolved remarkable strategies to thrive in nutrient-poor soils. From sticky traps to pitcher-like snares and swift closures, these ...

Carnivorous plants haven’t have the best media representation. The 1986 cult classic Little Shop of Horrors depicted these hungry little darlings as bloodthirsty beasts, which isn’t entirely ...

The southeastern coastal plain, which includes the Red Hills region of north Florida and southwest Georgia, has the richest diversity of carnivorous plants in the world. Spring loaded jaws, a pitfall, ...

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — Packed to the rafters with carnivorous plants of all shapes and sizes, one greenhouse local to Colorado Springs stands as a testament to both a passion gone wild as well as a ...

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Plants that feed on flesh have fascinated scientists going all the way back to Charles Darwin, and researchers now have new insight into how these meat-eaters evolved. Even plants that evolved ...