With a deadly trap, snapping tentacles and catapulting action, it sounds like a terrifying predator more suited to the animal world. But in fact, the small sundew from Australia is believed the be the ...

The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

A breed of insect-snaffling plant is being reintroduced to boglands in northwest England after more than 150 years. Several carnivorous Great Sundew, known for its ruby red tentacles dripping with ...

A killer plant with a cunning trick could one day be routinely used in a series of medical procedures, research shows. The sundew plant is aptly named. Each leaf is covered with tiny ...

Nobody likes a mooch. If you've ever had a friend who makes a habit or rummaging around in your fridge the moment they walk into your place you know exactly what I'm talking about, but apparently the ...

Watch how a sundew plant eating and digesting flies before your eyes in this #timelapse #shorts #sundew #carnivorousplants ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

In a plot right out of “The Little Shop of Horrors,” an IUPUC lecturer is making a serious dent in the gnat and fruit fly population on campus. When Barbara Hass-Jacobus heard that IUPUC faculty and ...

Finding a sundew plant with a healthy supply of insect food may not seem suspicious. After all, carnivorous plants are famed for supplementing their diet with meat to compensate for nutrient-poor soil ...

This Behind the Scenes article was provided to LiveScience in partnership with the National Science Foundation. Fifteen small sundew plants perch on a windowsill collecting sunlight and eating meat in ...