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 ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

Carnivorous plants haven’t have the best media representation. The 1986 cult classic Little Shop of Horrors depicted these hungry little darlings as bloodthirsty beasts, which isn’t entirely ...

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 ...

The southeastern coastal plain, which includes the Red Hills region of north Florida and southwest Georgia, has the richest diversity of carnivorous plants in the world. Spring loaded jaws, a pitfall, ...

A new study sheds a bit more light on the unusual, and a bit bizarre, species of carnivorous plants that trap and kill food, instead of drawing their nutrition from sunlight and soil. A large team of ...

The Florida Panhandle is teeming with carnivorous plant species. In fact, there are more here than any other place in the United States. This isn’t surprising considering that they thrive in wet, ...

This tiny garden in Wilmington is home to an abundance of carnivorous plants, including Venus flytraps, pitcher plants, and ...

Plants that feed on flesh have fascinated scientists going all the way back to Charles Darwin, and researchers now have new insight into how these meat-eaters evolved. Even plants that evolved ...

Carnivorous plants aren’t a product of nightmares so much as they are a product of evolution. When plants growing in bogs and other wetlands couldn’t find enough nutrients in the soil around them, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Carnivorous plants seem like the ultimate flora. Not content with ...