Deb Manley—a volunteer walking the rugged backcountry of Big Bend National Park after a recent rain—noticed tiny, strange ...

A park supervisor and a local volunteer have introduced the world to the “woolly devil,” a plant species no other botanists ...

Scientists have identified both a new species and genus of sunflower in the Texas desert, but climate change may threaten its ...

The woolly devil—a recently identified plant species—has researchers intrigued because it belongs to a brand new genus.

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist ...

In this week's roundup of science news, Emily Kwong and Rachel Carlson talk about a newly discovered desert flower, tasting lemonade in virtual reality and prehistoric bone tools used by early humans.

A new plant species, dubbed the "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park by park staff and confirmed by ...

In the Southwest portion of the state is Big Bend Ranch State Park. Here you can find the Leyva Canyon Volcano which is an extinct trachyte shield volcano. There are plenty of fun activities with ...

but the researchers have also given the plant a couple of nicknames: "wooly" and "wooly devil." They chose the name Ovicula, which means "tiny sheep" in Latin, due to the plant's fuzzy appearance ...

Deb Manley picked the name based on the plant's wooly hairs and its tendency to have two ray florets that "sort of look like ...

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