Carnivorous plants represent an unusual evolution in flora -- plants that attract and trap prey, have their own digestive process for the flesh of the prey, and absorb the resulting nutrients ...

A group of botanists led by Stewart McPherson discovered a carnivorous plant in the Philippines in 2007. The plant features a large pitcher, capable of trapping and eating insects and ...

The carnivorous sea squirt is one of many new deep-sea creatures found by U.S. and Australian scientists exploring southern Australia's Tasman Fracture Zone in January 2009. Found on ...

Dinosaurs in the genus Albertosaurus were carnivorous dinosaurs of the Tyrannosauridae family that lived more than 70 million years ago in western North America, in what is now the province ...

Spinosaurs were a family of bipedal carnivorous dinosaurs that lived in what is now North Africa approximately 100 million years ago. They were distinguished by the distinctive extended vertabrae spines ...

Elephant seals are large carnivorous mammals. Male elephant seals have a long face that resembles the trunk of an elephant. They were hunted for their oil and their numbers were ...

Boobies are birds that live off the western coasts of Central and South America. Boobies nest on land and are carnivorous birds that search for food at sea. The Booby ...

The largest of all cats, the tiger is also the largest living solely carnivorous land-dweller. Restricted to the Asian continent, tigers were once widespread, but due to habitat destruction and ...