A new plant species, the Wooly Devil (Ovicula biradiata), has been discovered in Texas's Big Bend National Park. This tiny, fuzzy plant with red petals and wool-covered leaves is the first new plant ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Texas is big — so big, it seems, that there are still things to be discovered in the state. Staffers at Big Bend National Park, located in Western Texas, found that to be true after ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service confirmed Monday. Last March, a Big Bend National Park ...

Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny flower recently discovered in West Texas hope it will bloom again in a couple of weeks after rain finally falls in the area. Dubbed the wooly devil, the ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas (KOSA) - Ovicula Biradiata has officially been added to the list of over 1,200 plant species that call big bend national park home. But even in one of the nation’s most ...

Researchers have discovered a previously unknown member of the sunflower family in Texas’ Big Bend National Park—the first time a new plant genus and species has been identified in a U.S. national ...

A “wooly” plant is among a few new discoveries at Big Bend National Park, park officials announced earlier this week in a news release. The small plant, officially named Ovicula biradiata and more ...

A new plant species called the Wooly Devil has been discovered at Big Bend National Park in Texas, the National Park Service announced Monday. The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata, was first spotted ...

It turns out that when staffers at Big Bend National Park came across a tiny, fuzzy-looking plant last year, they had stumbled upon a new species. In March 2024, a park ranger and botany program ...

Say hello to the wooly devil. The type of sunflower is a new plant species, identified in Big Bend National Park in Texas. Ovicula biradiata, as it is formally known, is especially notable for being ...