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 Endangered Species Act has been one of the country’s most valuable environmental tools, but it faces new threats. As the law turns 50, we’re asking whether this “pit bull” of an environmental law, ...

Got bugs? Then you might want to get a Venus flytrap, a fascinating carnivorous (!) plant you can grow alongside all your other houseplants. This interesting little plant, native only to the bogs of ...

Richard Jones saw his first Venus Flytrap when an old man -- well, maybe just old to 7- or 8-year-old Jones -- was selling them in paper cups out of his tailgate in Holden Beach, N.C. Richard Jones ...

The insect-eating Venus flytrap is found naturally in a 90-mile radius around Wilmington, N.C. A wildfire burned through the Green Swamp Preserve, a key habitat for the rare plant, but managers of the ...

As far as plants go, Venus flytraps are pretty hardcore. After attracting its prey with a fruity scent and trapping it inside its leaves, the flytrap slowly digests the insect for 5 to 12 days, ...

In 2011, a horticulturist named Mathias Maier stumbled across an unusual mutant of a Venus flytrap, a carnivorous plant that traps and feeds on insects. Scientists recently discovered that the typical ...

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 ...