Some plants display animal-like behaviors. Sundew hunts insects. Skunk cabbage generates heat. Witchweed steals nutrients. Mirror orchid mimics insects. Rafflesia smells like rotting flesh ...

Some plants, like Venus flytraps, eat animals like flies or frogs. There are around 390,000 plant species in the world. Plants first evolved in the water, and then started growing on land about ...

Sundews, pitcher plants, flytraps and other critter-trapping plants have done extremely well for themselves, through millions of years, ensnaring small prey and developing relationships with ...

Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides ...

So while the sea anemone's genome, gene repertoire, and gene regulation on the DNA level is surprisingly similar to vertebrates, its post-transcriptional regulation is undeniably plant-like -- and ...

Nature's artistry is showcased through plants that mimic animals. From the bat flower's dark, wing-like blooms to the parrot flower's beak-shaped sepal, these botanical wonders capture the ...

We can group animals based on the types of food they like to eat. For instance, there are some animals like rabbits, deer and horses that only eat plants. These animals are called herbivores.

Plants offer fruit to insects to disperse dust-like seeds Date: August 7, 2024 Source: Kobe University Summary: Fruit exist to invite animals to disperse the swallowed seeds.