Conneen, who graduated this month from UT Tyler with a bachelor’s degree in biology, will go to Switzerland study the microbial microcosms in pitcher plants, a type of carnivorous plant. “We ...

While the carnivorous cravings of most flesh-eating plants are limited to small insects, one exception is the pitcher plant. It can consume anything that fits in its mouthincluding a mouse!

But animals are not the only lives under threat. It might be hard to imagine, but plant life is equally challenged by encroaching highways and sprawling suburbs. The shrubs in your backyard you ...