It’s been known for some years that plants do this, but capturing it on film is quite a coup.
Plants
Every vegan’s nightmare: Those lovely, peacable plants, they don’t really trap and eat worms, do they?
“We may be surrounded by many more murderous plants than we think.”
#5 of 2011 for ID community: Explosive Radiation of Flowering Plants Confirmed.
” … new challenges to Darwin’s theory to explain the origin of flowering plant species over a relatively short geologic time period by incremental transformations.”
Photosynthesis: “Until a few years ago, it seemed a straightforward piece of chemistry”
“This is the first paper showing that coherence affects the probability of transport. “
Further to carnivorous plants: Their “flypaper” may prove useful technology
Note how this is merely a “bag of tricks.” Would the same people write about the space shuttle that way?
“Plants are SO just leafy green people!”
What’s interesting is the utter confusion between three different concepts: sentience, intelligence, and consciousness.
Do babies show a sense of altruism – and what does that mean anyway?
UD News recommends that all studies of “altruism” be treated with caution because the behaviour measured is supposed to be common to humans, insects, and in one study even plants.
Cycads are not living fossils? As often claimed?
“Although the cycad lineage is ancient, our timetrees indicate that living cycad species are not much older than ~12 million years.”
This just in: Plants are people too – biologists
We thought they were kidding too, okay? But …
Evolution: Clocks vs. rocks – if clocks win, what does it mean for plants?
Molecular clocks vs. fossils: Clocks say plants are earlier than rocks do.
Carefully preserved jumping gene in corn shows how intelligent design produces massive changes
The benefit of a tall stock with single ears of abundant kernels is evident forhumans (and incidentally agricultural pests), not to teosinte.
Geneticist W.-E. Loennig replies to Darwinist Nick Matzke: Which is more important: Darwin or facts?
Why does Nick not answer Nachtwey’s questions on the evolution of Utricularia’s trap? Suction in half a millisecond: How did the trap become watertight and functional as a suction trap with all its synorganized anatomical and physiological details by a series of random ‘micromutations’ with slight or even invisible effects on the phenotype (Mayr)?
Remember that Darwin-eating plant? Now threatening to eat Nick Matzke …
W.-E. Loennig: Matzke still doesn’t seem to have carefully studied my extensive paper yet, but he is still complaining that others know nothing on that topic and keeps on talking some nonsense promoting some half-baked ideas.
Carnivorous plants: After eating Darwin, they couldn’t resist further culinary adventures
Can you blame them? He was delicious and it was fun.
Wood ten million years older than thought?
In “Oldest Known Wood” (The Scientist , August 11, 2011) Jef Akst reports that “Two newly described fossils suggest that wood is some 10 million years older than previous believed” (No kidding!): … two relatively small fossils provide new clues, and suggest that wood evolved at least 10 million years earlier than previously documented, according Read More…