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 ...

When thinking of the food chain, most of us think of animals eating other animals or animals eating plants. However, some rare plants eat animals; these carnivorous plants actually attract, trap, and ...

How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? How and why does botanical carnivory keep evolving? It turns out that when any of the basic things that most plants need aren’t there, some plants ...

Meet the predators of the plant world. Scientists are beginning to understand how they acquired a taste for insects and other small critters. Since at least Darwin’s time, scientists have fawned over ...

Aug. 9 (UPI) --Botanists have identified a new carnivorous plant in western North America. The species, Triantha occidentalis, represents the 12th independent origin of plant carnivory. Found in bogs ...

A new species of carnivorous pitcher plant has been found in Cambodia's remote Cardamom Mountains. The discovery of Nepenthes holdenii is an indicator of both the stunning diversity and lack of ...

The Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) is probably the best known of the more than 600 species of carnivorous plants, which absorb nutrients from prey rather than through their roots. The flytrap grows ...

Just 0.2 percent of the flowering plants in the world are known to be carnivorous. We’re most familiar with Venus Flytraps, pitcher plants, and other plants that capture and digest their prey with ...

Researchers have shown that the shape, size, and geometry of carnivorous pitcher plants determines the type of prey they trap. Researchers at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and the ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A worm measuring only a millimeter in length scoots its way through relatively massive grains of white sand. The worm, known as a nematode or ...

IT is not unlikely that there may be a great demand for plants of the genus Drosera, and as I am in a neighbourhood where the supply of the D. rotundifolia and D. intermedia is inexhaustible, I shall ...

With Halloween around the corner, it's as good a time as any to take a closer look at carnivorous plants. We used author's prerogative to ask our Weird Animal Question of the Week about the coolest ...