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

Carnivorous plants comprise a fascinating group that has evolved elaborate mechanisms to secure nutrients in environments where soils are often deficient. Their diverse trapping structures—from ...

Genlisea, or the “corkscrew” carnivorous plant, doesn’t wait above ground to hunt. Here’s how it traps tiny prey right ...

Carnivorous pitcher plants attract ants with their sweet but toxic nectar, turning its flowers into a deadly trap.

In this week's Science for All newsletter, Divya Gandhi explains how scientists use biomimicry to create no-spill cups ...

Watch how a carnivorous trumpet pitcher is growing, eating, and digesting insects in this 4K time-lapse video.

One of Georgia’s notorious meat-eating plants surprised a group of elementary school students during a dissection by revealing it was still digesting a lizard. Georgia DNR photo One of Georgia’s ...

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 ...

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 ...