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Aug. 3, 2022 Scientists have uncovered the deadly workings of a carnivorous ...
June 29, 2022 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 capture ...
Sep. 8, 2023 Researchers have shown that the shape, size, and geometry of carnivorous pitcher plants determines the type of prey they ...
Nov. 30, 2023 Scientists sequenced the genome of the East Asian pitcher plant, Nepenthes gracilis, a species of carnivorous plant related to Venus flytraps, as well as sundews, beets and ...
Mar. 30, 2022 Researchers have combined macro photography with DNA metabarcoding to create a new botanical "CSI" tool that may hold the key to safeguarding the future of Australia's critically ...
Aug. 9, 2021 The delicate stalk and pretty white flowers of Triantha occidentalis may seem like the perfect place to perch if you're an insect, but get trapped in its sticky hairs and it will suck the ...
July 11, 2022 Insect-eating plants have fascinated biologists for more than a century, but how plants evolved the ability to capture and consume live prey has largely remained a mystery. Now,scientists have ...
July 13, 2022 Fleas are only a few millimeters in size. But they do have a whole arsenal of defenses -- even against aggressive ...
Mar. 25, 2021 The brush of an insect's wing is enough to trigger a Venus flytrap to snap shut, but the biology of how these plants sense and respond to touch is still poorly understood, especially at the ...
May 16, 2023 Under certain circumstances, a rare tropical plant develops into a carnivore. A research team has now deciphered the mechanism responsible for ...