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 ...

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 ...

3. It's called a humped bladderwort, or Utricularia gibba if you wanna get technical. It's a flowering plant that grows in ponds and lakes all over the world. (Earnest bladderwort explainer video.) ...

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 ...

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.

But a recent study shows that not all genomes are created equally. Unlike human genomes, the carnivorous bladderwort’s genome makes the most of its allotted bases having only an estimated 2 percent of ...

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 ...

But now, depressed by the aquatic bladderwort that chokes the pond so badly that swimming, boating and fishing are nearly impossible, they’re planning on moving and are in the process of ...

But the carnivorous bladderwort plant, Utricularia gibba, has only about 3% junk, according to an international team of researchers -- which is unusual even by plant standards. About 97% of its ...

Take a look inside the bladder of an aquatic bladderwort plant. You can see the single-celled algae, called desmids, that it has consumed. They will be digested to provide the plant with needed ...