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Remember those giant plants in Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs? You know, the one that almost ate Manny and Diego, and Buck, the annoying yet hilarious ferrety-weasel thing had to get them out? It turns out that they’re not the stuff of fairy tales. In fact, there are a few carnivorous plants that sometimes—though rarely, if ever—eat small mammals today, such as the species known as Nepenthes rajah.

Though man-eating plants are said to be cryptozoology legends and nothing more, they technically could exist. Most of the carnivorous plants we know of, however, just eat bugs, such as the Venus Flytrap.