In a fossil-rich region of northeastern China, a well-preserved specimen of an ancient flying reptile has brought new clarity ...

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In the realm of botany, certain plants have developed in ways contrary to our imagination. While the majority depend on photosynthesis and nutrients from the soil, a special group called carnivorous ...

Carnivorous plants, uniquely adapted to nutrient-poor habitats, capture insects and small organisms for essential nutrients. Popular types like Venus flytraps use snap traps, while sundews employ ...

I’d been bent at the hip like a cartoon detective, snooping around the trail’s edges, for over an hour. Covered in streaks of my own blood, courtesy of the recently satiated mosquitoes I swatted off ...

carnivorous plants that prey on insects and small animals, such as the pitcher plant, which lures prey into a cylindrical trap, and the Venus flytrap, which captures prey with bivalve-like leaves, but ...

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As the first light of dawn enters the Biodiversity Park at Rani Chandramani Devi Government Hospital in Pedda Waltair in Visakhapatnam, the air hums with life. The rhythmic call of the cuckoo ...

Kochi: A team of multi-institutional researchers discovered a novel method for synthesising silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) using the unique pitcher secretion of the Nepenthes ventrata, an insectivorous ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract To assess the impact of habitat fragmentation on tropical avian communities, we sampled lowland forest birds on six land-bridge islands and ...