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Meet the 'Wooly Devil,' the First New Plant Genus Discovered in a National Park Since 1976Deb Manley was exploring a remote area of Big Bend National Park when she spotted something unusual on the ground. Tiny, ...
The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species ...
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 ...
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A volunteer at Texas’ Big Bend National Park spotted bright red blooms after rain in a remote stretch of desert, leading to ...
The wooly devil, which was first observed in 2024 by park volunteer Deb Manley, is a small fur-covered wildflower that only blooms after rainfall — something academy researcher Isaac Lichter ...
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, ...
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.
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