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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Carnivorous plants seem like the ultimate flora. Not content with ...

Many people may be familiar with the sinister jaws of Venus flytraps or even the bulbous pouches of pitcher plants, but the truth is that those species barely scratch the surface of the wonderfully ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — To the average plant-eating human, the thought of a plant turning the tables to feast on an animal might seem like a lurid novelty. Now, science is showing just how remarkable these ...

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 ...

In a recent article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Qianshi Lin from the University of British Columbia in Canada and colleagues report finding a new lineage of ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Earth is home to some pretty gnarly carnivorous plants that will use ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... By Linnea Covington, Special to The Denver Post Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, ...

This story appears in the March 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. A hungry fly darts through the pines in North Carolina. Drawn by what seems like the scent of nectar from a flowerlike patch ...

When Barry Rice feeds the strange-looking plants in the Botanical Conservatory greenhouse on campus, he doesn't dip into a bag of fertilizer. The bugs buzzing around will do, thank you. Rice, a ...