The fleeting bloom of this beautiful flower is the only clue we get when it comes to finding the most sophisticated meat-eating plant in the world. Bladderworts are carnivorous aquatic plants, with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the ...

How’s this for spring cleaning? Scientists have discovered that a carnivorous plant deletes so much of its own junk DNA that it has hardly any left. The finding, published online in Nature, hints that ...

Carnivorous bladderwort (which is in fact a real plant, and not some insidious greenery from the Harry Potter series) has some mind-bending genetic material. According to a new study published in ...

Victor Albert, UB Empire Innovation Professor in Biological Sciences, is quoted in an article in Wired Science about the carnivorous plant bladderwort and how it sucks in its prey in about half a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, monkey cup or sundew. There’s something mysterious ...

Plant life on Guam amazes me every single day. No matter how tiny, looking up close, a magical world unfolds. The plant that fascinated me this time was growing in clay puddles in the savanna: ...

Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...

These plants thrive in places where the soil is poor in nutrients, making them rely on a unique menu to stay alive. What’s even more interesting is how these plants catch their prey using clever traps ...

In the musical "Little Shop of Horrors," a mysterious Venus flytrap in a florist shop reveals its appetite for human flesh and blood. Fortunately, there's no real-life equivalent of Audrey, the ...