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How plants turned predator

Enlarge / A blow fly trapped on a carnivorous sundew plant. (credit: Cathy Keifer | Getty) Toward the end of the 19th century, lurid tales of killer plants began popping up everywhere. Terrible, tentacle-waving trees snatched and swallowed unwary travelers in far-off lands. Mad professors raised monstrous sundews and pitcher plants on raw steak until […]