Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Explorers Discover Giant Rat-Eating Plant


The Philippines - Explorers have discovered a new species of giant rodent-eating carnivorous plant and have named it after legendary TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough. Nepenthes attenboroughii, a previously unknown variety of pitcher plant discovered on a remote mountain in The Philippines, is so big that small rodents could be trapped inside and slowly dissolved by flesh-eating enzymes.
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