Discovery in Brazil worm-eating carnivorous plant

According to The Thelegraph, an international team of researchers - including Brazilians - found that a species of native Cerrado plant is carnivorous and feeds on worms that live under the ground.

The plant - Philcoxia minensis - has a network of tiny sticky leaves that lie beneath the surface, catching small creatures approaching them. Although there are numerous carnivorous species in the world, devouring insects, frogs and even small mammals, this cerrado plant is the only one known to capture its prey underground.

Botanists have discovered three plants, all in the same family, and believe that there may be countless others with the same kind of nutrient absorption mechanism that had never been observed before.

Sources: The Thelegraph and PNAS