Animals obtain their food in various ways, depending on the species: A single-celled Paramecium can be engulfed by a freshwater shrimp, the shrimp gets eaten by a fish, and the fish can be eaten by an ...

Carnivorous plants of the genus Pinguicula (butterworts) from Mexico apparently use the same water-saving photosynthesis type as many succulent plants, such as cacti. Botanists from the SNSB and LMU ...

While exploring an isolated lagoon in the mountains of Ecuador, researchers found several colorful plants — one of which was a new species. The joint team of Ecuadorian, U.S. and German researchers ...

On a bright, sunny day in mid-June, a friend and I strolled on the Lower Loop trail at Eaglecrest. Out in the meadows, we found the white flowers of starflower and three-leaf goldthread; long-leaf and ...

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Most carnivorous plants colonize wet, nutrient-poor habitats such as bogs or swamps. One of the few exceptions is the genus Pinguicula, known as butterworts: more than half of the approximately 110 ...