Hold on to your butts: We've all heard of pitcher plants that eat insects and other creepie crawlies, but a new pitcher plant discovered in Australia has been known to eat objects as large as small rats. Sucks for you, Australia — everything you touch in that country can already kill you, and now you have to worry about more than just dingoes eating your babies.
The new species, called "Tenax" (presumably because that just sounds evil) was discovered by James Cook University ecologist Charles Clarke and a colleague near the Jardine River, but the exact location is secret.
(Pic of the rat-eating plant after the rat-eating jump).
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