In the world of plants, most use sunlight and soil to survive. But some have a very different way to live. Carnivorous plants ...

Found only near the summit of Mount Victoria on the island of Palawan in the Philippines, Attenborough’s pitcher plant, Nepenthes attenboroughii, is critically endangered. One of the largest of all ...

When Peter D’Amato sold 11-year-old Damon Collingsworth his first carnivorous plant at a Sausalito flea market in summer 1989, their lives changed forever. For nearly a decade, Collingsworth ...

Smaller carnivorous species eat microscopic prey, such as bacteria; medium-sized plants subsist on insects and their larvae, crustaceans, or even little fish. The largest meat-eating species in ...

Pandora Dewan is a Senior Science Reporter at Newsweek based in London, UK. Her focus is reporting on science, health and technology. Pandora joined Newsweek in 2022 and previously worked as the ...

These carnivorous plants have evolved in ingenious ways—inspiring innovations from nonstick sprays to water repellants. What other mysteries do pitcher plants hold? A tropical pitcher plant's ...

Today, carnivorous plants are having another big moment as researchers begin to get answers to one of botany’s great unsolved riddles: How did typically mild-mannered flowering plants evolve ...