You might think this endangered plant is doing everything in its power to be as unpleasant as possible - but the smell is actually designed to lure carrion-eating insects for pollination.

and less than 1,000 individual plants remain in the wild. The Amorphophallus titanium is just one of several types of carrion flowers that smell like rotting meat to attract pollinators.

This attracts carrion flies. As a fly searches deeper into the flower, seeking dead flesh upon which to lay its eggs, the flower attaches a gloopy drop of pollen to the fly's back, which ...

This giant plant stinks to high heaven and warms up to about the temperature of a human body. It's the inflorescence of the titan arum, Amorphophallus titanum, a plant called a spadix that stands up ...