For most plants, there is no way to eat and live without photosynthesis. Sure, some, like the Venus flytrap, find more carnivorous ways of sustaining themselves. But there’s a weird group of parasitic plants out there called Balanophora that found a loophole in it all by thriving without the need for photosynthesis, instead relying on […] The post Scientists Found a Plant That Gave Up on Photosynthesis Entirely appeared first on VICE .