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 ...

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THIS VENUS FLYTRAP HAS CAUGHT SOME PREY. I’M HERE AT VALLEY VIEW FARMS FOR SUNDAY GARDENER. I’M HERE WITH CARRIE INGLE. AND YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE THINK OF CARNIVOROUS PLANTS, THEY THINK OF VENUS ...

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. Which plants do you think are notable, or at least interesting, in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

WASHINGTON — For more than a century, the small garden in the back of Elizabeth Krentzman's Georgetown row house has amused and served its succession of owners. But never quite like this.Krentzman has ...

(CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon in what is now Scotland, new research suggests. Lead study author Tone ...