How Plants Became Meat Eaters
Carnivorous plants capture the imagination because they are so unlike any other plant with their elaborate and sometimes beautiful traps. Seeing as how plants are defined by their ability to create their own food how did some of them take such a different evolutionary pathway. Thank you to the patrons WokeOak, Dan Smith, David van der Roest, Steve Black, Curlynet Cables and Mathew John Treacey who aren’t listed in this video because it was made before the last uploaded video. To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light-media-store Email: [email protected] If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Some footage in this video came from these channels; check them out if you want to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT5kNlDJZ8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVUnAcNBC5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcKoTxp5mc Sources: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5965#/summary https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02935.x http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5025.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-016-0059 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26646-first-carnivorous-plant-fossil-is-40-million-years-old/ http://legacy.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/articles/CPNv41n2p67_76.pdf https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/377852?mobileUi=0&journalCode=qrb https://www.insidescience.org/news/investigating-venus-flytraps-speedy-snap https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907454/ https://atlasofscience.org/evolution-of-a-sucker-functional-principles-of-traps-in-carnivorous-bladderworts-utricularia-lentibulariaceae/
Carnivorous plants capture the imagination because they are so unlike any other plant with their elaborate and sometimes beautiful traps. Seeing as how plants are defined by their ability to create their own food how did some of them take such a different evolutionary pathway. Thank you to the patrons WokeOak, Dan Smith, David van der Roest, Steve Black, Curlynet Cables and Mathew John Treacey who aren’t listed in this video because it was made before the last uploaded video. To support me on Patreon (thank you): https://www.patreon.com/MothLightMedia To donate to my PayPal (thank you): https://www.paypal.me/mothlightmedia To buy merchandise: https://teespring.com/en-GB/stores/moth-light-media-store Email: [email protected] If I have used artwork that belongs to you but have neglected to credit it this will just be because I was unable to find one. If this has happened please contact me and I will add a credit. Some Art work has been altered for the purposes of bettering them for video format; these alterations were done independent from the artists who created the original work, so they are not responsible for any inaccuracies that could have occurred with the changes being made. Some footage in this video came from these channels; check them out if you want to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT5kNlDJZ8A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVUnAcNBC5w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZcKoTxp5mc Sources: https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/5965#/summary https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2009.02935.x http://www.sarracenia.com/faq/faq5025.html https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-016-0059 https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26646-first-carnivorous-plant-fossil-is-40-million-years-old/ http://legacy.carnivorousplants.org/cpn/articles/CPNv41n2p67_76.pdf https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/377852?mobileUi=0&journalCode=qrb https://www.insidescience.org/news/investigating-venus-flytraps-speedy-snap https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3907454/ https://atlasofscience.org/evolution-of-a-sucker-functional-principles-of-traps-in-carnivorous-bladderworts-utricularia-lentibulariaceae/