The reasoning behind these rules makes sense once you know the unique natural history of carnivorous plants. Although the most well-known carnivorous plant, the Venus flytrap, is native only to a ...

Nature's ingenuity shines through carnivorous plants, which have evolved remarkable strategies to thrive in nutrient-poor soils. From sticky traps to ...

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 ...

Carnivorous plants feed on insects and use a variety of sneaky and sometimes gruesome ways to lure, trap and devour their prey. Question: I was recently gifted a Venus fly trap plant and would like to ...

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

CAROLINA BEACH, N.C. — Park ranger Jesse Anderson leads dozens of people on a weekly hike in North Carolina to see some of the most unique living things in the world — plants that supplement the ...

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. Which plants do you think are notable, or at least interesting, in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

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 ...

Things weren’t looking good for the carnivorous plantDrosera silvicola. Scientists believed there were just two remaining populations of this “meat-eating” flower, both of which have found themselves ...