Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...

Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the plants can't absorb from the soil. Not only does this alien-looking ...

Carnivorous plants haven’t have the best media representation. The 1986 cult classic Little Shop of Horrors depicted these hungry little darlings as bloodthirsty beasts, which isn’t entirely ...

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

The southeastern coastal plain, which includes the Red Hills region of north Florida and southwest Georgia, has the richest diversity of carnivorous plants in the world. Spring loaded jaws, a pitfall, ...

Plants that feed on flesh have fascinated scientists going all the way back to Charles Darwin, and researchers now have new insight into how these meat-eaters evolved. Even plants that evolved ...

The Venus flytrap Dionaea muscipula is the most sophisticated of the carnivorous plants. Its traps snap shut in a fraction of a second, imprisoning prey in a cage of teeth that line the edges of the ...

Scientists discovered Nepenthes megastoma, a new Palawan pitcher plant, but fewer than 50 remain due to poaching and climate threats.

About 200 million years ago, certain plants with strange leaves showed up on what became the eastern half of North America. Because they grew in marshy, infertile soil, they had to devise other ways ...

The Florida Panhandle is teeming with carnivorous plant species. In fact, there are more here than any other place in the United States. This isn’t surprising considering that they thrive in wet, ...

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Sebastopol; Calif. -- The founder of California Carnivores plant nursey in Northern California started his garden of insect-eating plants as a passion project decades ago. Now, his passion has evolved ...