There's an old saying that everything in Australia wants to eat you – and this apparently includes plants, with the island a ...

A newly-discovered carnivorous sea sponge that looks like a perfect sphere—but covered in hooked teeth—is easily the weirdest ...

Image source, Jialing Cai/The Nippon Foundation-Nekton Ocean Census/Schmidt Ocean Institute A carnivorous "death-ball" sponge ...

A spherical sea sponge discovered in Antarctica, Carnivorous cladorhizid, is a carnivore, trapping and devouring live animals ...

Nature's ingenuity shines through carnivorous plants, which have evolved remarkable strategies to thrive in nutrient-poor soils. From sticky traps to ...

“We had never seen this behavior before. Squirrels are one of the most familiar animals to people," said one scientist Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...

Petunias and potatoes may actually be carnivorous plants, scientists now suggest. Indeed, carnivorous behavior may be far more widespread in plants than commonly thought — if we take a closer look, ...

Carnivorous plants have fed our imaginations since the dawn of our time. Charles Darwin called the most popular variety, the Venus flytrap, the “most wonderful plant on earth.” Even the film The ...

Anna: They snap, they trap, they stick, and they suck. This is the bizarre world of carnivorous plants—leafy creatures that eat everything from insects, to crustaceans, to mammals. I’m Anna, and this ...

A hyena at the San Antonio Zoo participates in a live feeding event. Things are about to get even wilder at the San Antonio ...

Godfrey’s butterworts have leaves coated with small hairs that secrete sticky mucilage, which insects mistake for water or nectar. When the insect gets trapped, the edge of the leaf slowly rolls over ...

New research has found approximately a quarter of carnivorous plant species across the world may be at risk of extinction due to global climate change, illegal poaching, and the clearing of land for ...