Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. TIME AND AGAIN, plants have evolved the ability to eat animals. From ...

Plants and animals usually have different ways of feeding themselves. Within the animal kingdom, herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat mostly herbivores, and omnivores eat both. (Even though your ...

Scientists have long wondered how meat-eating plants like these developed such an unusual lifestyle. "It's kind of counterintuitive that a plant is actually using an animal for some of its food ...

Most meat-eating plants passively trap prey, relying on a bug’s clumsiness or carelessness. Sundews exude a sticky substance that traps insects; the many varieties of pitcher plant just wait for ...

Carnivorous plants in Sweden are so stuffed on nitrogen pollution that they're able to eat fewer bugs—and that may not be a good thing for the plants, a new study says. Nitrogen is an essential ...

Don't Edit Come on a tiny safari in the close-up world of the pitcher plant bog, where the animals eat plants, and the plants eat animals. The following photos, and the story they tell ...

One of Georgia’s notorious meat-eating plants surprised a group of elementary school students during a dissection by revealing it was still digesting a lizard. Georgia DNR photo One of Georgia ...

They’re a living, crawling digestive system made of thousands of bodies, as essential to the plant’s meat-eating lifestyle as any of its own cells. But why do the ants actually matter?

ENCINITASENCINITAS — A Venus flytrap will be among a slew of meat-eating plants coming to the San Diego Botanic Garden in Encinitas as part of the traveling exhibition Savage Gardens “The Real ...

Several species of carnivorous local plants are too, and many might be living in the woods near you. Natural areas in Flagler and Volusia counties harbor many meat-eating plants, including some ...

Meat-eating, man-eating plants were having a moment, and for that you can thank Charles Darwin. Until Darwin’s day, most people refused to believe that plants ate animals. It was against the ...