The carnivorous plant then digests the insect, gaining nourishment that can be difficult to get from the nutrient-poor soil in its boggy home. Different kinds of Sarracenia pitcher plants tend to ...

The horror can only be seen in slow motion. When a fly touches the outstretched leaves of the Cape sundew, it quickly finds ...

It was reported a more than a decade ago that some species of tropical pitcher plants, Nepenthes species, changed their diet from insects to animal poops. But thanks to new research, we now know ...

Carnivorous plants are already quite fascinating, but a newly discovered one ratchets up the weirdness factor even further. It's a type of pitcher plant, and it captures prey that lives underground.

Pitcher plants, however, require a much smaller meal ... In fact, Nepenthes is the only dioecious carnivorous plant. Albert and Fukushima’s team also identified a male-specific region of the genome ...

A pioneering pitcher plant is changing what we know about carnivorous species. This unique plant, however, could already be under threat. Only living in one small area of Indonesia, scientists believe ...

If an insect gets too close to the plant, the pitcher traps it and digests the insect to help supplement their diet in a nutrient-poor home. The odor of carnivorous plants hasn’t been well ...