If you look at the New Jersey Pine Barrens from the road or the air, it may seem to live up to its name – miles upon miles of endless pitch pine forest. But the ...
On the soggy floor of one of the only remaining intact forests on the island nation of Singapore, the egg-sized heads of carnivorous creatures emerge from decaying leaves. They appear to be belching, ...
Take it from a seasoned hortifreak, plants can reproduce in weird ways. I’m not talking about unusual seeds, ranging from giant naked coconuts to those little bumps on the outside of strawberry fruit ...
Over 70 years ago, Roald Dahl proposed that plants could scream in a fictional story called The Sound Machine. He suggested they could shriek — a high-pitched shriek undetectable to the human ear.
Q: These (strange looking white plants) started coming up under a big white pine in my yard in West Pittsfield and I have never seen them before. They were odd and almost transparent as the stems were ...
They appear to be belching, or singing, or screaming out the catch phrase of their cousin in Hollywood — “Feed me Seymour.” This is Nepenthes ampullaria, an unusual pitcher plant found on the islands ...
Publisher Iceberg Interactive and developer Bad Viking announced that Mac owners can now get their hands on Strange Horticulture on Steam. The game has actually been out on Steam since January of this ...
Scientists have discovered a unique fossil that does not match any known species of flowering plants, an advance that sheds more light on the planet’s ancient diversity. Researchers first spotted the ...
Many of the bacteria that ravage crops and threaten our food supply use a common strategy to cause disease: they inject a cocktail of harmful proteins directly into the plant's cells. For 25 years, ...
The world is filled with strange plants. There are plants that make their homes in the deserts, existing off of precious little water; plants that live in the rainforest, hidden away in the dense ...