Scientists have discovered a carnivorous plant that grows prey-trapping contraptions underground, feeding off subterranean creatures such as worms, larvae and beetles.The newly found species of ...

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 of ...

Among the numerous carnivorous pitcher plant species, scientists say this is the first that lays its traps underground. By Carolyn Wilke A newly discovered pitcher plant keeps its hunger for insects ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pitcher plants can be grown outdoors year-round in tropical climates or indoors as houseplants in cooler climates. They grow best ...

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What we thought we knew about carnivorous plants was swiftly called into question after scientists discovered a new species in the Indonesian province of North Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo.