WORCESTER COUNTY, Md. (WJLA) — A new carnivorous plant has been discovered by botanists in Maryland, according to the Department of Natural Resources. Botanists recently confirmed the discovery of ...

A carnivorous plant, Drosera Magnifica, discovered on Facebook.Paulo Gonella Drosera magnifica has it all. The big, five-foot plant seems Little Shop of Horrors-worthy in the way it uses sticky leaves ...

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 ...

“If it captures lots of insects, it produces more leaves and more traps.” Today there are some 800 known carnivorous species. Some, like pitcher plants and many sundews, are passive receivers of prey ...

Toward the end of the 19th century, lurid tales of killer plants began popping up everywhere. Terrible, tentacle-waving trees snatched and swallowed unwary travelers in far-off lands. Mad professors ...

Of all the plant world’s oddities--giants, stinkers, living rocks--none grabs the mind like a carnivore, a plant that dines on flesh, reducing hapless bugs to skeletons. While other greens gorge on ...

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, ...

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 ...