A new plant species has been hailed as the first to be "discovered over Facebook" after a photo posted by an amateur researcher was spotted by scientists on the social media network. The huge ...
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 ...
In 1860, a year after publication of his seminal work on the origin of species, Charles Darwin wrote to a friend, “At the moment, I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in 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 ...
In 1860, a year after publication of his seminal work on the origin of species, Charles Darwin wrote to a friend, “At the moment, I care more about Drosera than the origin of all the species in the ...
A FEMALE correspondent and friend of Charles Darwin, Lady Ellen Lubbock, sent him part of a poem she wrote after reading his work Insectivorous Plants (1875). It included the verse: Beginning all to ...
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 ...
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 ...
Out here in the jungle, nothing is what you expect -- the vegetation assumes fantastic unlikely shapes. This plant looks like a cobra prepared to strike; that one like a trumpet with the head of a ...
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