Charles Darwin finally proven right about bug-eating plant after 150 years
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Researchers using radioactive isotope tracing have confirmed that Saxifraga candelabrum, a flowering plant in southwestern China, is carnivorous and absorbs nutrients from trapped insects—a hypothesis Darwin proposed in 1875 but could not prove in his lifetime.
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