Carnivorous plants are special plants that eat insects and small animals. Most plants make their own food using sunlight, water, and air. But carnivorous plants grow in places where the soil does not ...

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 ...

Dr. Phil Sheridan from the Meadowview Biological Research Station visits the studio to talk with Peggy about bog plants and dissect a pitcher plant to see how many insects it can trap. Featured on VHG ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Carnivorous plants flip the rules of the food chain by trapping insects and small animals to extract valuable nutrients that the ...

Q. Most examples of unusual wildlife are animals. Which plants do you think are notable, or at least interesting, in some way? A. I have received this question before, the first time being from Joab ...

Pitcher plants' primary way of catching prey may have been missed for more than a century because scientists didn't like working in the rain in rainforests, according to Walter Federle, coauthor of a ...

Peggy Singlemann visits Dr. Phil Sheridan at Meadowview Biological Research Station in Woodford to learn about pitcher plants and explore a rare gravel bog ecosystem where these unique native plants ...