Scientists have uncovered how sundews, Charles Darwin's favorite plant, become more carnivorous in certain habitats. Researchers from Loughborough and Gloucester universities found that they alter the ...

Illegally introduced purple pitcher plant (Sarracenia purpurea), also known as the northern pitcher plant, turtle socks, or side-saddle flower, growing in the wild in Dorset, UK. This carnivorous ...

The Triantha occidentalis, or western false asphodel, is the first carnivorous plant identified in two decades, despite the white flower's discovery 142 years ago. See more of our coverage in your ...

Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black | Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a helpless ...

Researchers at the University of Oxford's Botanic Garden and the Mathematical Institute have shown that the shape, size, and geometry of carnivorous pitcher plants determines the type of prey they ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don't have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

New research has found approximately a quarter of carnivorous plant species across the world may be at risk of extinction due to global climate change, illegal poaching, and the clearing of land for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. Carnivorous plants look like botanical oddities, but their ...

The horror can only be seen in slow motion. When a fly touches the outstretched leaves of the Cape sundew, it quickly finds itself unable to take back to the air. The insect is trapped. Goopy mucilage ...