Plants
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Remote Island Contains Alien-Like Plant Life
That bizarre-looking tree in the photo above isn’t part of the latest concept art for the Avatar sequel. Nope. Called the Dragon’s Blood Tree it’s one of hundreds of strange, almost alien-like, plants that thrive on the remote Socotra...
How Does This Plant Eat Flesh?
That was the challenge for one biologist who discovered that this plant, Philcoxia, was indeed consuming worms. Yet it doesn’t seem to have any orifices to trap the organisms, or lures to bring the creepy crawlies out of the dirt to their...