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

Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin's favorite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats.

While most often its animals that consume plants, the opposite is true in a unique group of plants classified as carnivorous. Reference to the latter often conjures up images from movies of some ...

A carnivorous plant that fascinated Charles Darwin is able to increase its number of "tentacles" when nutrients from the ...

Giant pitchers are plants characterized by large, distinctive bell-shaped upper and lower pitchers and narrow, upright lids. The purpose of the pitcher is to capture both rainfall and insects. In ...

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 ...

Some East Bay ground squirrels have given up eating only seeds and plants and now are choosing to hunt and eat other rodents.

Carnivorous plants are interesting members of the plant world that have evolved to trap and digest animals, mostly insects, to survive. These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in ...