Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that ...

Carnivorous plants clearly benefit from eating animals; when the scientists feed pitcher plants extra bugs, the plants get bigger. But the benefits of eating flesh are not the ones you might expect.

New type of carnivorous plant found in mountain bogs New type of carnivorous plant found in mountain bogs Meat-Eating Plant Found Stealing Bugs From Its Neighbors Meat-Eating Plant Found Stealing ...

Endangered carnivorous plants are being reintroduced ... the plant is one of a dozen or so meat-eating plants native to the UK. Charles Darwin was captivated by the species, compiling drawings ...

Orangutan pitcher plant (Nepenthes pongoides) just discovered in Sabah, on the tropical island of ... [+] Borneo. (Credit: Alastair Robinson.) An international team of botanists report they have ...

In reality, most carnivorous plants eat insects, but some larger pitcher plants can consume rodents. “They’re big enough to inadvertently trap small mammals, and when they do, it’s Christmas ...

A newly described species of pitcher plant, one of the largest and furriest ever found, has been identified on a wild mountain in Borneo, Malaysia. The underside of the leaves of Nepenthes ...