Walking through the boundless landscape of red rocks and limestone cliffs in Texas' Big Bend National Park last March, a ...
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 ...
A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...
Spanning 801,165 acres and featuring a mix of riparian ecosystems, desert bajadas, and sky island woodlands, Big Bend ...
New Plant Species Discovered at Big Bend National Park . Close up view of "Wooly Devil." Photo credit: NPS / D. Manley.
Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service ...
A new plant species has been discovered at Big Bend National Park, the park announced in a news release Monday.
Two park employees in Big Bend National Park encountered a tiny plant that they did not recognize. After further examination, ...