Aquatic carnivorous plants, typified by genera such as Utricularia and Aldrovanda, represent some of nature’s most specialised adaptations for life in nutrient-poor aquatic environments. These plants ...

The best time to see this plant is in the morning, just as the sun is coming up, while you quietly paddle in the backwater end of a pond, or perhaps inside a mysterious Carolina bay. By the hundreds, ...

Fleas are only a few millimeters in size. But they do have a whole arsenal of defenses -- even against aggressive plants. Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität ...

The other day I was busying around in the herbarium when a gentleman from the little town of Wagener, South Carolina, dropped by, carrying a bucket. Inside the bucket was a good bit of water, from his ...

For small aquatic critters like mosquito larvae and water fleas, a plant called the bladderwort is a nightmare. Like the Venus flytrap, it’s carnivorous; it eats bugs. On the water’s surface, ...

Meet the butterwort - a carnivorous plant with a killer cling. Unlike snap traps or pitchers, this plant lures in prey with sticky, glistening leaves that insects can’t escape. In this video, we take ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Georgetown Times features John Nelson’s Mystery Plant series each Friday. You can find the answer to today’s mystery plant in next Friday’s paper. The answer to last week’s Mystery ...

The waterwheel lives a double life: facing extinction in its native habitat even as it creeps into places where it doesn’t belong. By Marion Renault Across their kayaks, the three men passed the green ...

Adam Cross receives funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council Industrial Transformation Training Centre for Mine Site Restoration (project number ICI150100041).

Water fleas are masters of adaptation. Researchers from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB), the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt have discovered that they can ...