A carnivorous plant that lives in bogs worldwide traps its prey in less than a millisecond, more than 100 times faster than a Venus flytrap can manage, a new study finds. The study is the first to ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Great, wonderful, wacky things can come in small genomic packages. That’s one lesson to be learned from the carnivorous bladderwort, a plant whose tiny genome turns out to be a jewel ...

Great, wonderful, wacky things can come in small genomic packages. That’s one lesson to be learned from the carnivorous bladderwort, a plant whose tiny genome turns out to be a jewel box full of ...

The bladderwort plant may seem simple at first glance, but inside its small structure is a tiny genome packed with more genes than larger, more well-known plants. A team of scientists at the ...

The tiny bladder of the humped bladderwort plant. Photo: Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Claudia Anahí Pérez-Torres and Paulina Lozano-Sotomayor The carnivorous bladderwort plant is a small aquatic species ...

Bladderwort looks like a delicate little water plant, but it’s nothing of the sort once you pay attention to how it feeds. Hidden along its stems are tiny traps that pull in prey faster than you can ...

A carnivorous water plant with tiny traplike bladders dotting its leaves may not deserve its reputation as a relentless predator, says a Florida scientist. A survey of bladderwort plants in the ...

We get a lot of press releases about photo contests, but this winning image from the Olympus BioScapes Imaging Competition (which I didn't even know existed) stood out for a few reasons: 1. The image ...

The evolutionary secrets of one of nature's marvels – the carnivorous bladderwort – have been uncovered by scientists. The aquatic plant has no recognisable roots and floats around, catching prey with ...