In sun-scorched expanse of Big Bend National Park, where the Chihuahuan Desert stretches seemingly endlessly, Deb Manley was ...

The small plant, officially named “Ovicula biradiata" and more affectionately called “wooly devil,” was first spotted in ...

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 ...

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

Meet the wooly devil, a newly discovered plant that was found in Big Bend National Park in Texas in 2024. But it's not just a ...

Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service ...

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," said Issac Lichter Marck, a researcher at the California Academy of ...

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

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

Big Bend National Park staff members in Texas were the first to log the "wooly devil," a new plant species with the official name Ovicula biradiata.