'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.

Carnivorous plants are those that have evolved to trap and digest animals as an extra source of nutrients. Roughly 630 species are already known to science, according to the Natural History Museum ...

But visions of enormous carnivorous plants capable of trapping humans, like the human-munching plants of 1960’s The Lost World or even the crooning Audrey II of Little Shop of Horrors, are ...

I was looking for one plant in particular-tiny, carnivorous sundews. We found them, nestled into the damp sphagnum, glistening with sticky drops of liquid. As a biologist and biology teacher, I am ...

Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers. But the “flowers” are modified leaves that form a cup containing digestive enzymes and entrap insects.

“Humans are captivated by these plants and their killer instincts, which has gained them a reputation of being flesh-eating monsters, particularly in Hollywood movies,” said Ari Novy, Ph.D ...

Carnivorous Plants Have Been Trapping Animals for Millions of Years. ... The idea has stuck with us so strongly that we have turned human-eating plants into a sci-fi staple, ...