The bladderwort vacuums in its food faster than the blink of an eye, using powerful suction to snatch its prey, which can be any suitably small creature unfortunate enough to get too close. A recently ...

The carnivorous humped bladderwort plant is a sophisticated predator. Living in swamps and ponds, it uses vacuum pressure to suck prey into tiny traps at breathtaking speeds of under a millisecond. A ...

Bladderwort looks like a delicate little water plant, but it’s nothing of the sort once you pay attention to how […] ...

The tiny bladderwort plant may not be much to look at – and yeah, its name is beyond silly – but it’s the deadliest hunter in the plant kingdom. It can trap prey in less than a millisecond, over a ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Great, wonderful, wacky things can come in small genomic packages. That’s one lesson to be learned from the carnivorous bladderwort, a plant whose tiny genome turns out to be a jewel ...

The bladderwort plant may seem simple at first glance, but inside its small structure is a tiny genome packed with more genes than larger, more well-known plants. A team of scientists at the ...

Common bladderwort was one of Charles Darwin's favorite plants. This aquatic, carnivorous plant is blooming in ponds and bogs right now, and is one of the most interesting plants you are likely to ...

A carnivorous water plant with tiny traplike bladders dotting its leaves may not deserve its reputation as a relentless predator, says a Florida scientist. A survey of bladderwort plants in the ...

It's hard to know whether to gasp or laugh at the winning picture in this year's Olympus BioScapes Digital Imaging Competition. One thing's for sure: The humped bladderwort is no laughing matter to ...

Behold the bladderwort. These plucky little plants — 200-plus species strong — are found worldwide, live in moist soil or within lakes, streams and wetlands, and have pretty flowers that resemble ...

The carnivorous humped bladderwort plant, Utricularia gibba, is a sophisticated predator. It uses vacuum pressure to suck prey into tiny traps at speeds less than a millisecond. A new genomic analysis ...