Grow carnivorous pitcher plants indoors and your guests will never forget them! These ferocious beauties are easily identified by modified leaves that bear an uncomfortable similarity to male anatomy.

Ghastly visions of plants that eat flesh have troubled the dreams of many imaginative men. In William Randolph Hearst’s American Weekly a romancer named Dr. Carle Liche once described what he saw one ...

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Mike Howlett, Jesse Jones Park naturalist, will be discussing "Carnivorous Plants" and visiting the plant bog on Saturday, Oct. 28, at 10 a.m. By BONNIE McKENNA Carnivorous plants are fascinating even ...

New England lobstermen have gone high tech by adding low-cost instruments to their lobster pots that record bottom temperature and provide data that could help ocean circulation modelers better ...