The wooly devil is only the latest in a series of remarkable finds in the park. In recent years, scientists have uncovered ...

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species ...

Deb Manley was exploring a remote area of Big Bend National Park when she spotted something unusual on the ground. Tiny, ...

The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata​, was first spotted by botany volunteer Deb Manley and a park ranger in Big Bend ...

A new fuzzy plant species called the "Wooly Devil" has been discovered amongst the arid landscapes of Big Bend National Park ...

A new plant species, the Wooly Devil (Ovicula biradiata), has been discovered in Texas's Big Bend National Park. This tiny, ...

A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...

The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The ...

Researchers with the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of sunflower endemic to the harsh, rocky ...

The volunteer, Deb Manley, walked into the dusty basin and snapped a photo of the eye-catching plant, then shared it on iNaturalist — a social media platform for sharing pictures of flora and fauna.