Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Millions of years ago, a carnivorous plant used tiny tentacles to trap insects, according to scientists writing in ...

A flesh-eating plant that grew in Russia about 40 million years ago has been discovered by scientists. Its fossilised leaves, preserved in Baltic amber, are strewn with multi-cellular stalked glands ...

Working with Baltic amber from the Eocene epoch, researchers have discovered fossilized carnivorous plant traps for the first time ever. These leaves from insect-eating flowering plants are between 35 ...

This release is available in German. There are few things more irritating than a fly buzzing around the house. South African's have an unconventional solution to the problem. They hang up a bunch of ...

Native to South Africa, Roridula is a carnivorous plant with a twist: It doesn’t actually digest the insects it captures with its sticky hairs but leaves this task to a bug species called Pameridea ...