Carnivorous plants are some of the most interesting lifeforms in the world. While most plants rely solely on sunlight and ...

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 ...

Most plants get on just fine with sunshine, water, and half-decent soil. Carnivorous plants don’t have that option. They tend to live in places where the soil is so poor in nutrients that normal roots ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Many people have a gleeful fascination with carnivorous plants, be that a Venus flytrap, pitcher plant, monkey cup or sundew. There’s something mysterious ...

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 ...

World Bog Day was celebrated around the world on July 23. I celebrated by hiking to an Alaskan bog, or muskeg, as they are colloquially known. This particular bog surrounded a small lake that was ...

1. Sundews are a carnivorous plant, and despite their tiny size they are a formidable foe for insects on every continent except Antarctica! There at least 194 species of sundew, or Drosera, and they ...

The annual search for rare plants across Wisconsin has turned up a meat-eating plant in Ashland County that hasn’t been seen in the state in 45 years. The English sundew (Drosera anglica), a ...

DULUTH -- The annual search for rare plants across Wisconsin has turned up a meat-eating plant in Ashland County that hasn’t been seen in the state in 45 years. The English sundew (Drosera anglica), a ...

A plant recently discovered by botanists is the first of its kind in Maryland. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced Tuesday the discovery of a dwarf sundew (Drosera brevifolia) near ...