It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants ...

Carnivorous Plant Fossil Rare fossils of a carnivorous plant have been found preserved in a piece of Baltic amber. The find has shed light on the origins of a plant that traps its food using ...

The carnivorous-plant fossils therefore provide important clues for reconstructing the habitat, but many more pieces are needed to get a full picture of what this Baltic Eocene forest looked like.

That is why it was so remarkable that in 2014, Eva-Maria Sedowski and co-authors were able to find and describe some of the earliest preserved remains of a carnivorous plant in approximately 40 ...

And the oldest reported fossils of carnivorous plants, one from the Early Cretaceous period of China and the other from the late Cretaceous of the Czech Republic, are controversial.

Fossils of a large carnivorous dinosaur that was a top predator about 115 million years ago have been unearthed in Thailand -- a brute that was among the early members of an impressive group of ...

A recent fossil discovery pins down the date when many plants became carnivorous. It's estimated this ability to obtain Nitrogen from the bodies of decaying insects began between 8 and 72 million ...

Newly referred material of 'Martes' lydekkeri. Credit: Journal of Mammalian Evolution (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s10914-025-09749-4 A group of researchers, including Harrisburg University of Science and ...

The oldest fossils of carnivorous plants yet uncovered are more than 34 million years old, preserved in amber. “When I first put these amber inclusions under the microscope, ...