Though there are hundreds of species, each with unique adaptations, carnivorous plants can be classified into five groups based on their trapping methods: pitfall, adhesive, snap, snare and suction.

Venus flytraps appear to have evolved an even more elaborate version of this kind of trap, complete with jawlike leaves. Unfortunately, the adaptations that enable carnivorous plants to thrive in ...

Hundreds of carnivorous plants were displayed this weekend at Bogotá’s botanical garden in an exhibit that invited visitors ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young, ...

explaining the evolution of temporarily inactive traps in carnivorous pitcher plants' by Bauer et al in Proc. R. Soc. B and is not to be archived.