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Tarantula with XXL genitalia, 'death ball' sponge among cool species of 2025
A spider with extraordinary genitalia, a carnivorous caterpillar that wears its prey's body parts, and a tiny opossum are among the cool new species described by science in 2025.
Darwin Was Right: These Plants Are Carnivores
Scientists have proved that a species of plant covered with sticky hairs is carnivorous, confirming Darwin’s 150-year-old hunch.
Flightless Jurassic bird was like a carnivorous pheasant with killer claws
An early bird with many dinosaur-like features discovered in China seems to have been a fast-running, land-based carnivore with killer claws.
Here’s the newest faculty members of LSU’s College of Science
Three assistant professors have joined LSU’s College of Science this semester. Carl Procko, Ping Wang and Keegan Kirk brought their research expertise, including plant responses, adaptations and numerical analysis. Procko, assistant professor of biological sciences, works with the adaptations of plants in relation to their environments. He mentioned his interest in unusual plants, including carnivorous...
Scientists Prove Darwin Right on Carnivorous Plants
He thought species in the Saxifraga genus were meat-eaters, and a new study confirms it
Scientists identify an insect-eating plant, proving Charles Darwin right after 150 years
A new study found Saxifraga candelabrum to be a carnivorous plant, proving true Charles Darwin’s hypothesis that some plants of its genus lure, trap and eat insects.
A crushed fossil revealed a dinosaur that shouldn’t have existed
A badly mangled dinosaur skull, once forgotten in a drawer, turned out to be a rare and important discovery. Reconstructed by a Virginia Tech student, it revealed a new species of early carnivorous dinosaur with unusual features never seen before. The fossil suggests some dinosaur groups were wiped out during the end-Triassic extinction, not just their rivals. It may represent one of the last survivors of an ancient dinosaur lineage.