Charles Darwin spent years puzzling over how the Venus flytrap snaps shut its jaw-like leaves so fast; now, a French team says it has the answer. In a study published in Science, physicist Yoël ...

One of only two plants worldwide that actively trap animal prey, the flytrap is at home in a surprisingly small patch of U.S. soil. Lynda Richardson As I slogged through black swamp water, the mud ...

A Venus flytrap is a meat-eating plant that catches its own food. Their leaves look a bit like tiny jaws. Inside each leaf are tiny hairs. If an insect, fly or even small frog brushes against the ...