Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into ...

Venus fly traps are one of nature’s most interesting plants as they’re one of the few that’s carnivorous, meaning they ...

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Christian said his love of plants began back in his native Germany from a young age, maintaining his own garden as a boy. When he went to school, he studied botany alongside biology and pharmacology ...

It is a case of wolves in fishermen’s clothing as several of them have been spotted pulling crab traps from waters off Canada’s west coast in what scientists say may be the first documented case of ...

Many animals have been observed using tools. For example, chimps tear leaves off of branches and stick them into holes to pull out termites, and wild dingoes have been observed moving objects to stand ...

Researchers are trapping and tracking the New World screwworm to detect it early before it threatens livestock. The previous ...

While researchers are divided on the conclusion, the behavior shows wolves may be smarter than we thought. This still image of a wolf at night comes from a camera trap, which was part of an experiment ...

A female wolf figured out how to pull a crab trap from the ocean onto shore to fetch a tasty treat. Scientists debate whether the behavior represents tool use, or if the animal needed to have modified ...

On a remote beach at the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, two very different species are meeting – sea turtles and jaguars. Each year, thousands of turtles return here to lay their eggs, while the jaguars ...

University of California Riverside researchers are launching a preemptive strike against the threatened return of the flesh-eating New World screwworm, a threat to livestock.