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 ...

Only about two percent of the human genome contains genes. The other 98 percent has been likened to cosmology’s dark matter that fills the space between stars – there’s a lot of it, but nobody really ...

Swollen bladderwort is an invasive, carnivorous plant that has been spotted in eight bodies of water in Maine. It eats insect larvae and water fleas, forming mats on the surface of the water. The ...

CHESTERVILLE – “I wasn’t exaggerating, was I?” said Robert Pachucki, leaning forward in his rowboat and heaving the oars out of Horseshoe Pond. Rising from the surface they looked startlingly like ...

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 ...

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Take a look inside the bladder of an aquatic bladderwort plant. You can see the single-celled algae, called desmids, that it has consumed. They will be digested to provide the plant with needed ...

A fast-spreading invasive plant known as swollen bladderwort is being found in more Maine ponds and lakes. The aquatic plant has now been confirmed in eight bodies of water across the state, with ...

In the 12 years since the human genome was sequenced, so many critters have had their DNA deciphered—oysters, bees, eels, camels, clawed frogs, elephant sharks—that it’s hard to suppress a yawn ...

Here's an awesome photo of an awesome organism with an awesome name. And we couldn't resist. We get a lot of press releases about photo contests, but this winning image from the Olympus BioScapes ...