The idea of flesh-eating plants may seem like the stuff of horror films, but we do have a few carnivorous wild plants in ...

Up to 40% of all insect species may be threatened with extinction, and caddisflies are the most imperiled aquatic insect — a group that also ... spiders, frogs and small mammals like voles. Since they ...

There are currently around 630 species of carnivorous plant known to science. Although most meat-eating plants consume insects ... small mammals. Smaller carnivorous plants specialise in single-celled ...

Now some students are not just learning about insects and spiders at ... This method involves sequencing a small section of the genome to tell different species apart. The specimens were then ...

Despite our outsized impact on the planet, humans are not the dominant species. For every person on Earth, there are approximately 1.4 billion insects. All together, they would weigh 70 times ...

In nature, species will sometimes form unexpectedly close bonds ... that use nectar at the rim of their tube-like structure to attract prey such as insects and small vertebrates. A slippery substance ...

“Endangered Species Act protection for coal ... have dark blotches and a dusky coloration. Small freshwater fish who live near the bottoms of clean, flowing rivers over gravel substrate, they feed on ...