Anyone who has ever seen the peculiar carnivorous Venus flytrap plant gobble up a fly knows that plants can take on some decidedly unplantlike behavior. Trees, as we all know, are pretty stationary: ...

Deep in the Amazon rainforest, a tall, slender palm known as Socratea exorrhiza has sparked one of nature’s most intriguing myths. Often described as a “walking tree”, it is said to slowly shift its ...