This is a scanning electron micrograph of the bladder of Utricularia gibba, the humped bladderwort plant (color added). The plant is a voracious carnivore, with its tiny, 1-millimeter-long ...

Bladderwort might look innocent, but don’t let that fool you - this plant is a lightning-fast predator. In this video, we dive into how it works, why it’s so effective, and what makes it one ...

The species in this photo, the common bladderwort, makes its living in the swamps of Alabama and the coastal South, trapping and then eating all manner of tiny creatures, from one-celled animals ...

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 ...

A survey of bladderwort plants in the Everglades found far more bladders harboring living organisms than dead ones, reports Jennifer H. Richards of Florida International University in Miami.

Trap of the southern bladderwort (Utricularia australis) with its meal consisting of algae and pollen. Trap of the southern bladderwort (Utricularia australis) with its meal consisting of algae ...

Utricularia, a genus of rootless carnivorous plants, is better known by its common name, bladderwort. There are more than 200 species worldwide, living in fresh water and saturated soils.

The tiny bladder of the humped bladderwort plant. Photo: Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, Claudia Anahí Pérez-Torres and Paulina Lozano-Sotomayor The carnivorous bladderwort plant is a small aquatic ...

Take the floating bladderwort. This flesh-eating water plant is a genetic minimalist, adrift in a world of hoarders. The onion, for example, has around five times more DNA than you do, with a ...

This Carnivorous Aquatic Plant Is An Efficient Trapper of Small Animals. The Mechanism of Its Trap, A Unique Device Which Operates by Suction, Has Recently Been Discovered ...

The common bladderwort (Utricularia macrorhiza) is much more than strange; its natural history is amazing. This is our only native carnivorous plant in Arizona and it thrives underwater in ...

The clues lie in the genome of the carnivorous bladderwort plant, Utricularia gibba. The U. gibba genome is the smallest ever to be sequenced from a complex, multicellular plant. The researchers who ...