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These days, the venus flytrap is more vulnerable than ever and despite its popularity, the people who could protect it seem focused on other problems.One of nature's most recognized wonders, the venus flytrap's ability to snatch living prey makes it a favorite fascination of school-aged children everywhere. The flytrap's natural habitat is located within a hundred miles of the Carolinas' coast, where much larger and more territorial plants have always held forth.However, booming growth and...

By Yesson, C; Culham, A Abstract.- We investigate the impact of past climates on plant diversification by tracking the "footprint" of climate change on a phylogenetic tree. Diversity within the cosmopolitan carnivorous plant genus Drosera (Droseraceae) is focused within Mediterranean climate regions. We explore whether this diversity is temporally linked to Mediterranean-type climatic shifts of the mid-Miocene and whether climate preferences are conservative over phylogenetic timescales....