Learn how to take care of—and feed—carnivorous plants. Learn facts about Venus flytraps, pitcher plants and more.

This catapults the ants off of the lid and into the pitcher trap below, where the creatures drown and are consumed by digestive juices, BBC News reports. The researchers used high-speed cameras and ...

Flora/Fauna, a plant store in Atlanta, has seen a sharp increase in demand in the last year. “We’ve always carried them, but ...

Plants are often seen as quiet and passive, just standing still and turning sunlight into energy. But some plants are very different; they have learned to catch and eat animals to survive. These are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the ...

Audrey it’s not—but it’s pretty close. A large meat-eating plant, dubbed the "pitcher plant," was discovered in 2007 in the Philippines, and the details of the discovery have now been published in the ...

In Florida’s wetlands the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ally. In Florida’s wetlands, the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. In my own ...

Acid-filled pitchers complete with fangs. Labyrinthine chambers decorated with bristles. Leaves that snap shut in less than a second. Employing strategies like these, carnivorous plants have a ...

In Florida’s wetlands, the carnivorous pitcher plant is blurring the lines between predator and ally. Home to entire unique ecosystems, there are more to these ancient organisms than many realize. So ...