Scientists Confirm Darwin's 150-Year-Old Theory on Carnivorous Plants

A century and a half after Charles Darwin quietly noted that a small alpine plant seemed to consume insects, modern science has confirmed what he could only intuit. Researchers publishing in Nature have established, through molecular analysis, microscopy, and ecological study, that Saxifraga — a modest genus of flowering plants found across temperate and arctic landscapes — is genuinely carnivorous. The validation is less a triumph over Darwin's era than a reminder that careful observation can outpace the tools available to prove it, and that science sometimes measures its progress not in deca