Carnivorous plants have developed specialized structures to capture and digest prey for essential nutrients in nutrient-poor ...

While most often its animals that consume plants, the opposite is true in a unique group of plants classified as carnivorous. Reference to the latter often conjures up images from movies of some ...

Usually, we are used to seeing animals devour plants and other animals, but nature is full of surprises. Some plants are known to attract, trap and digest a ... 9 Plants That Eat Animals. By.

The horror can only be seen in slow motion. When a fly touches the outstretched leaves of the Cape sundew, it quickly finds itself unable to take back to the air. The insect is trapped. Goopy mucilage ...

Northern California dominates again -- and we're not talking sports. This is all about plants. Carnivorous plants. Like other eccentrics of every stripe, the leaders of the carnivorous-plant world ...

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 ...

Erica Young explains why more than 600 species of plants are carnivorous. Erica Young, Associate Professor of Biological Sciences at UW-Milwaukee, explains that more than 600 species of plants ...

On a wetland east of Esperance, Thilo Krueger is trying to crack a baffling case. Key points: Bladderworts are a species of carnivorous plant that use their traps to capture and eat animals ...

'Carnivorous plants don't just eat animals for themselves. This adaptation is an amazing way to thrive in environments where they would be otherwise difficult to grow,' said Black.

IDAHO, USA — Most animals eat plants, but there are some plants that eat animals. ... So if you have some unwelcome guests in your house, maybe a carnivorous plant is what you need.

David Fefferman with the Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts discusses his love of animal-eating plants and the group's expo, which takes place this weekend. Even by plant lover ...