World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) — A new carnivorous plant has been discovered by botanists in Maryland, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Botanists recently confirmed the discovery of ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

Carnivorous plants are amazing, and researchers have spent a long time learning about their impressive abilities. Now scientists have found evidence that these mechanisms originated as defense ...

A carnivorous plant, Drosera Magnifica, discovered on Facebook.Paulo Gonella Drosera magnifica has it all. The big, five-foot plant seems Little Shop of Horrors-worthy in the way it uses sticky leaves ...

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 ...

Of all the plant world’s oddities--giants, stinkers, living rocks--none grabs the mind like a carnivore, a plant that dines on flesh, reducing hapless bugs to skeletons. While other greens gorge on ...

“If it captures lots of insects, it produces more leaves and more traps.” Today there are some 800 known carnivorous species. Some, like pitcher plants and many sundews, are passive receivers of prey ...