Dr. Peter Fritsch, Curator, Department of Botany at the California Academy of Sciences, describes how over the period of 10 years he and colleagues discovered the first carnivorous plant species known to trap and digest worms underground using adhesive leaves.

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• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)