Plants

These carnivorous plants generate tiny magnetic signals when they clamp down on insects.

Orchids are usually prized for their loveliness, but a newly described species is no beauty.

Streaming video from NYC offers a stink-free view of the notoriously malodorous corpse plant in bloom.

Carnivorous plants began evolving about 70 million years ago, when an ancestor duplicated its entire genome, allowing some genes to be repurposed for hunting.

Conservationists in Indonesia discovered the largest-ever specimen of Rafflesia tuan-mudae, a parasitic plant known as the 'corpse flower'

A new study suggests that plants that are stressed by drought or physical damage may emit ultrasonic squeals.

You can talk to your plants — but they won't care.

Here's why plant life is so resilient to radiation and nuclear disaster.

These carnivorous Canadian plants don't just eat bugs — they eat vertebrates, too.

Three new plant species have disappeared from Earth every year since 1900, an alarming new analysis found.