Most of us were probably a bit incredulous the first time we heard about the Venus flytrap: There’s such a thing as a carnivorous plant? One that actually can clench its jaw-like protuberance around ...

Watch a carnivorous Venus flytrap growing and eating before your eyes in this time-lapse. A dormant flytrap was planted into a pot filled with soil mixture and moist wood fiber on the surface. We ...

An insect lands on the open leaves of a Venus flytrap plant, drawn to an appealing scent. It noses around and accidentally brushes one of the trap’s trigger hairs. An action potential shoots across ...

Our Venus' flytrap plant was about to bloom in this time lapse. This isn't something we typically see everyday, that's why we ...

The carnivorous Venus flytrap plant can snap its clamshell leaves around an insect in less than a second. But how? Unlike animals, plants have no muscles or brains. And plants are not known for their ...

Of all the wild places across the globe, a 100-mile radius around Wilmington extending to Fayetteville is the only natural home to the Venus flytrap. This remarkable, carnivorous plant snaps its ...

Kay Harris couldn’t help but open the package. It didn’t matter that the intended recipient, her son, wasn’t there or even in the country when the mail came that day. Patience slipped away at the ...

Lydia Patrick is a Newsweek Life and Trends Reporter based in London, focusing on emerging trends, human interest stories, and women's issues. She previously uncovered a growing pattern of knife crime ...