In central Pennsylvania, there’s a state park with unique features that’s great for kayaking, hiking and exploring. Black Moshannon State Park is built around a natural bog that has become a ...

A white-topped pitcher plant is seen Monday, June 14, 2013 at a pitcher plant bog near the Weeks Bay Reserve in Baldwin County, Ala. . (Bill Starling/[email protected]) The summer blooms are out in ...

Carnivorous plants consume other living creatures for their food. Learn facts about growing Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and more.

Carnivorous plants are rare, but now botanists say they've found one that's long been overlooked. It lives just outside Vancouver, British Columbia, and in other parts of the Pacific Northwest.

One of the most fascinating features of Tarkiln Bayou is that it's the home to a rare, carnivorous plant called the pitcher plant, found only in this Gulf Coast region, as well as three other ...

The US Botanic Garden's carnivorous plant collection features sticky traps, digestive juices, and sweet-smelling lures.

Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. So Why Have They Never Grown Larger? Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through ...

Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles.The newly found species of ...

Among the numerous carnivorous pitcher plant species, scientists say this is the first that lays its traps underground.

A remarkable new species of carnivorous plant was discovered in a remote part of Borneo. It is the first pitcher plant known to produce functional underground traps, and the first for which ...

One species, the white-topped pitcher plant, once occurred in five Georgia counties but no longer can be found in the state. Another species, the green pitcher plant, is on the federal endangered ...

No other species of pitcher plant known to science catches its prey underground. The plant forms specialized underground shoots with small, white, chlorophyll-free leaves, the researchers said.