An endangered tropical plant that emits the stench of a rotting corpse during its rare blooms has begun to flower in a ...

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From a flower which resembles a brain to a three-metre-tall plant that smells of rotting flesh, sometimes the natural world is more horrifying than any fiction. Discover this creepy collection of ...

Many plants here rely on mists for water ... Back at the village, he said he had something to show us: a strange and mysterious object that he had found nearby. He believed it might belong ...

Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien ...

Jan. 9, 2025 — A recent study has uncovered the surprising evolutionary origin of the mammalian outer ear, linking it to the gills of ancient fish and marine invertebrates. The research reveals ...

However, they couldn’t match the fossils’ strange assortment of features with ... scientists highlight a problem in studying ancient plant fossils, especially of plants that lived less than ...

Rafflesia (Rafflesia keithii), Borneo. This plant has no stem or leaves, instead it is a parasite on a vine. By feeding on its host, rafflesia is able to produce the world's biggest flower ...

But what makes one plant more likely to survive than another? We’ve uncovered some strange and surprising facts about some of our hardiest plants. Scientists in Germany think they’ve ...

Most plants get the energy they need through photosynthesis, but some get their nutrition by stealing it from another plant instead. About 1% of flowering plants (around 4,000 species) are parasitic.