Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're looking for a unique new houseplant or a conversation piece for your indoor garden, you might want to consider pitcher ...

It's time to wake up and smell the pitcher plants. While the carnivorous plants are famed for their range of shapes and colors to help trap prey, very little is known about their scents. A new study, ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

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 ...

They call themselves Skippy, a strangely cheerful name for a group devoted to a fairly creepy endeavor (at least from this animal’s perspective) — the care and breeding of carnivorous plants. Yes, ...

A carnivorous pitcher plant (Nepenthes lowii) growing amongst ridge-top vegetation on Mount Murud, Sarawak. (Credit: Jeremiah Harris / CC BY-SA 3.0) It was reported a more than a decade ago that some ...

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 ...

These carnivorous plants have evolved in ingenious ways—inspiring innovations from nonstick sprays to water repellants. What other mysteries do pitcher plants hold? A tropical pitcher plant's slippery ...

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Scientists were traipsing around the island of Borneo when they noticed something that stopped them in their tracks. They saw foliage that looked like that of a pitcher plant—the group of carnivorous ...