From sticky “flypaper” to lightning-fast suction, carnivorous plants have evolved various ingenious traps for finding the ...

Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their behavior is not a gimmick. It is a precise evolutionary solution ...

Fleas are only a few millimeters in size. But they do have a whole arsenal of defenses -- even against aggressive plants. Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...

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 ...

Not having luck growing carnivorous plants at home? Jacob Soule talks carnivorous plant soil requirements, pitcher plant varieties, sundew plant care, and more. In this episode of Mother Earth News ...

Aquatic carnivorous plants, typified by genera such as Utricularia and Aldrovanda, represent some of nature’s most specialised adaptations for life in nutrient-poor aquatic environments. These plants ...

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, ...

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 ...

MENTION CARNIVOROUS PLANTS and chances are likely that someone will say, “Feed me, Seymour,” the kitschy refrain sung by Audrey II, a plant that feeds on humans, in the musical “Little Shop of Horrors ...