Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. N. macrophylla with animal droppings in its tube-shaped trap. Here we see the pitcher plant Nepenthes macrophylla with animal ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fly inside the Venus flytrap at David Fefferman's home nursery in Mission Viejo. Fefferman is one of the largest collectors and ...

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles.The newly found species of ...

Carnivorous plants’ peculiar strategies for snagging live prey have long captured the public imagination. But even within this strange group, in which food-trapping mechanisms have evolved multiple ...

At a very young age, Kevin Zhang learned that gardening was not for the faint of heart. Some of his earliest memories are of his grandmother plucking fat green caterpillars from the tomato plants in ...