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 ...

The first carnivorous plant in twenty years has been discovered by researchers—and as it turns out, its unique abilities have been hiding in plain sight all along. According to a study published in ...

Animals obtain their food in various ways, depending on the species: A single-celled Paramecium can be engulfed by a freshwater shrimp, the shrimp gets eaten by a fish, and the fish can be eaten by an ...

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 ...

A carnivorous pitcher plant (Nepenthes lowii) growing amongst ridge-top vegetation on Mount Murud, Sarawak. (Credit: Jeremiah Harris / CC BY-SA 3.0) It was reported a more than a decade ago that some ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ABITA SPRINGS, LOUISIANA — There are many ...

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black - Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a helpless ...

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 ...

It sounds like something out of “The Little Shop of Horrors,” but there will be no cries of “Feed Me, Seymour” when Marie Selby Botanical Gardens opens a new exhibit of carnivorous plants this weekend ...

In the bogs of Ontario, Canada, certain plants have developed a taste for amphibians. According to the study authors, this is the first research showing that carnivorous pitcher plants, also known as ...

TANNERSVILLE, Pa. — Kevin Zhang came to a screeching halt. “Oh, wow,” he belted, squatting alongside the rickety wooden path suspended above the Tannersville Cranberry Bog in the Poconos. Members of ...

The horror can only be seen in slow motion. When a fly touches the outstretched leaves of the Cape sundew, it quickly finds itself unable to take back to the air. The insect is trapped. Goopy mucilage ...