Trapped Twins.

Trained as a biologist and now pursuing science communication, Stephens was working with researchers who, in 2018, found that 20 percent of the northern pitcher plants in this bog contained young salamanders - the first documented case of these insectivorous pitcher plants regularly consuming amphibians. As juvenile salamanders leave their natal lake and cross the bog to burrow under the forest floor for the winter, they somehow enter the pitcher plants. Two deceased juvenile spotted salamanders float inside a northern pitcher plant in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park, where photographer Samantha Stephens documented the eerie scene. [Extracted from the article]

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