Standing five feet away, I could smell it in the air. Acrid, damp, toe-curling—a memory from my past. The nose is a powerful ...

There is something about the stench of corpse flowers that draws curious people far and wide when the giant blooms spew their ...

A rare bloom of a corpse flower — with a pungent odor similar to decaying flesh — has attracted big crowds to a botanical garden in the Australian capital Canberra, the third such extraordinary ...

A rare bloom with a pungent odor like decaying flesh has opened in the Australian capital in the nation’s third such ...

When a line of people are waiting around in Brooklyn, most people would assume they’re waiting for a concert. Instead, crowds ...

Sydney's corpse flower Putricia is on display at the Royal Botanic Garden. It will only bloom for about 24 hours before dying. Thousands of people are watching Putricia's live stream on YouTube.

The corpse flower is endangered ... emit the scent of rotting meat to attract insects that think the plant is a dead animal. Those insects, however, must have already come from another active ...

Unlike bees and flies, which are drawn to sweet or pleasant smells, certain beetles are naturally attracted to the scent of rotting food and dead carcasses. The corpse flower’s smell helps draw in ...

A giant, rare and notoriously stinky flower bloomed at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden over the weekend, drawing hundreds to smell something “putrid.” The Amorphophallus gigas, known as the “corpse flower ...