Rafflesia is one of the most bizarre and fascinating plants in the world, known for its massive size and putrid stench. Often called the "corpse flower," it emits a strong odor of rotting flesh to ...

We humans think ... green globs the size of a candy sprinkle. It includes the tasty plants, like sweet corn and mangoes; the super-stinky plants, like the corpse flower; and the super-stinky ...

The stems of this vining flower ... size. One species features blooms that can measure up to 3 feet across, roughly the same length as a golf club. But before you go in search of this giant, you ...

Such was the case in Canberra, Australia, where a corpse flower bloomed for the first time since it was planted a decade earlier. Visitors to the Australian National Botanic Gardens describe the ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

An Amorphophallus titanium, also known as a corpse flower, blooms for one to three days once every seven to 10 years. During the bloom, it releases a powerful smell, described by some as rotting ...

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

It was no small feat. British “micro artist” David Lindon set a Guinness World Record by creating a microscopic Lego block that is the same size as a human white blood cell — four times ...

"I'm not doing a back and forth with a corpse. I wanted to do it when you was lit, it was fun. Don't go get shot all through the year and pop up like Bernie at Weeknd at Bernie's wanting to ...

There is estimated to be less than 1,000 corpse flowers remaining in the wild. Dick Mendham, Owner of the Sunrise Lodge in ...

Bird flu is here to stay. The H5N1 avian influenza is proliferating among U.S. cows and there are now two strains circulating among mammals and birds. Though there are only 68 confirmed cases in ...