A rare corpse orchid has bloomed at Powell Gardens. The flower is not known so much for its beauty as its stench.

A rare corpse orchid has bloomed at Powell Gardens. The flower is not known so much for its beauty as its stench.

Parasitism: Rafflesia, the world’s largest flower, takes water and nutrients from the host plant it grows on.

An intricate flower with purple, white, and blue hues, it’s both a pollinator magnet and a symbol of the tropics. A vibrant plant with strikingly colourful bracts, it thrives in rainforest ...

They are a cousin of the giant corpse flower, a plant notorious for its terrible odor. According to a Temple University article, the konjac is “smaller, but no less stinky,” than its big cousin.

The following reflection was written by Shauntrice Martin, recipient of the 2024 1619 Impact Grant. Martin created a four-month arts intensive, the Black Arts District, for educators, students, and ...

"Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast ...

The Australian couple were seated next to the corpse while travelling en-route to Venice Sydney: An Australian couple have criticised Qatar Airways after a blanket-draped corpse was seated next to ...

A married couple was forced to sit next to a dead body for roughly four hours after a woman died in the middle of an international flight. Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin were flying from ...

Mitchell Ring and Jennifer Colin, from Australia, were en route from Melbourne to Doha, Qatar, when a female passenger suffered a medical emergency and passed away mid-air. Her body was later placed ...

The couple were even asked to move over to make room for it. For more than four hours, the pair were forced to sit next to the corpse - and the experience left them traumatised. A tearful Ms Colin ...

Located in South America, the Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rainforest, spanning approximately 5.5 million square kilometres. It stretches across nine countries: Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, ...