SAN ANTONIO — The world's most unpleasant smelling flower is about to bloom at the San Antonio Zoo. The corpse flower, which is native to the rainforests of Sumatra in Indonesia, is an endangered ...

Most people associate flowers with fragrances and beauty. However, there are some flower types that have adopted different strategies.

SAN ANTONIO — The so-called "corpse flower" at the San Antonio Zoo now has a new name, the zoo announced Thursday. Previously, the Zoo invited the public to help name the world's most unpleasant ...

Not mysterious or spooky, but expected to smell all together ooky, the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden’s corpse flower, Morticia, is blooming. “It’s happening,” the zoo posted on social media Friday ...

It’s big, it’s beautiful and it’s stinky. It’s also in bloom in D.C., though not for long. The scientific name for the giant plant is Amorphophallus titanum. But it’s most commonly known as the corpse ...

In 2019, a series of images went viral that depicted a squirrel stopping to smell a flower before eating it. Some Reddit users expressed doubts that the images were authentic. "The animal is dead and ...

This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to a field near Reading in southern England to stare ...

It is most famously known for the powerful rotting flesh odor it releases, which is why it was named the corpse flower. This is the first known instance of a corpse flower blooming right here in San ...