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Can carnivorous plants eat people?
Popular Science explores whether carnivorous plants, such as Venus flytraps and pitcher plants, could ever consume a human. The short answer is no: these plants digest insects and small prey using enzymes, but they lack the size, strength, and digestive capacity to break down something as large as a person, despite their fearsome reputation.
Why now: Curiosity about nature's stranger adaptations, likely sparked by the plants' pop-culture image as man-eaters, keeps the question in circulation.
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