The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in a fraction of a second, researchers say. These fast-moving snares are among the quickest seen yet in ...

A fly traversing the leaves of a sundew must feel like those wooly mammoths that stumbled around in tar pits trapped and sinking ever deeper to their deaths. On a recent canoe trip in Ontario, in a ...

The roundleaf sundew looks like something out of an alien movie, a tiny plant with tentacle-like stems extending in a rose pattern and red hairs sticking out from the leaves. It’s not a typical ...

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 ...

A rare insect-eating plant with long tentacles and tiny leaves tipped with red-colored glands that ooze alluring nectar has been found just outside Michigan, in a county where it hadn't been seen for ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The twitchy tentacles of a sundew can catapult prey into the carnivorous plant's sticky traps in ...

Here, the carnivorous sundew plant growing on the foothills of Mt. Cameron, in northeastern Tasmania. Researchers have found the plant's snappy tentacles can capture an insect in just 75 milliseconds.