Knowable Magazine reports on how harnessing the heater to attract pollinators may have first happened more than 300 million ...

These plants smell like rotten meat — Now we know how they do it From the aptly-named carrion flower to the stinking corpse lily, these plants thrive through disgusting odors ...

Myiasis refers to the infestation of living tissue by fly larvae. First, a female screwworm fly lays her eggs on an open wound or a moist body opening (like the nose or ears). The eggs hatch into ...

Knowable Magazine reports on how harnessing the heater to attract pollinators may have first happened more than 300 million years ago, before the grand explosion of diversity in pollinating ...

It’s somewhat contentious among scientists why plants would bother to make heat: After all, the process is metabolically expensive. Yet thermogenesis has been documented in 14 different plant ...

Many plants smell "good" — to humans that is — but some go several steps in the other direction, presenting themselves to the world as dead, decaying animal flesh.