Because pitcher plants grow slowly (they can live for decades), the experiments can take years to yield results. Ellison and Gotelli are trying to figure out what evolutionary forces pushed these ...

No fertilizer is needed as carnivorous plants get needed nutrients from the insects they trap or live mealworms, crickets and ...

There are plants that can live for over a thousand years ... A lack of nitrogen in the soil where they grow means that these carnivorous plants use their hollow, jug-shaped pitchers to obtain ...

Carnivorous plants have developed a terrific array of weird and wonderful adaptations that help them flourish in nutrient-poor environments. Enter the world of predatory plants (if you dare) and ...

Here’s how. Plants can talk. Yes, really. Here’s how. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. Horrific summer travels? These tales are worse. New type of carnivorous plant found in ...

Live plants were first exported to England ... who apparently didn’t believe him. A carnivorous plant, Linnaeus declared, was “against the order of nature as willed by God.” ...