Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The word “adaptation” is used in many ways by climate scientists, but it has a very specific meaning to biologists: It refers to ...

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Plants that feed on meat and animal droppings have evolved at least ten times through evolutionary history Riley Black - Science Correspondent A Cape sundew wraps its sticky leaves around a helpless ...

Carnivorous plants are specialized predators that kill insects using engineered biological traps. Their danger lies in sticky surfaces, snap mechanisms, or fluid-filled chambers that prevent escape ...

Plants are consistently threatened by various types of abiotic stress. Strides have been made over the past couple of decades in understanding the molecular mechanisms that regulate plant responses to ...

Animals going into nighttime mode could become disoriented when the sun returns. When millions of people look to the skies on April 8 to witness the total solar eclipse, scientists will be studying ...

When a wild orangutan in Sumatra recently suffered a facial wound, apparently after fighting with another male, he did something that caught the attention of the scientists observing him. The animal ...