Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients.

It was a prolific year for scientists studying weird and unusual animal behavior ... But they also rely on another factor to decide which plant to pollinate: electricity. As bees fly through ...

It’s hard not to relate to the little insects that carnivorous plants like the Cape sundew, Venus flytraps and pitcher plants feed upon. What seems to be an inert plant, a part of the ecological ...

Hadany is an evolutionary biologist and theoretician at Tel Aviv University. Some animals can also hear the plants scream and make noise. The fact that some animals can hear the higher-pitched ...

A total eclipse isn’t just a spectacle in the sky. When the moon consumes the sun on April 8, day will plunge into twilight, the temperature will drop — and nature will take notice. Reports ...

The Green Planet reveals the strange and wonderful world of plants ... trees that care for each other; plants that hunt animals and a plant with most vicious defences in the world.

This creature's large fangs earned it the name Hylomys macarong, or vampire hedgehog – a new species of soft-furred hedgehog identified in 2024 (Credit: Alexei V Abramov) Thousands of new ...

Things only get weirder from there. But the fun of the show is seeing how the characters are able to use the strange plants and animals to their advantage. “I think it’s a universally ...

If something unusual makes it inside the plants ... if plant protection could get an additional boost from animal-inspired solutions. Plants with the pikobodies killed cells exposed to the ...