Texas Monthly8d
How Big Bend National Park Workers Discovered an Impish New Plant Species
As the saying goes, the devil is in the details. Last year, Big Bend National Park volunteer Debra Manley and park interpretive operations supervisor Cathy Hoyt were on a hike in a northern area ...
CBS News22d
See the "Wooly Devil," new plant species discovered at a U.S. national park for the first time in nearly 50 years
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 ...
San Antonio Express-News22d
A 'wooly' new plant species has popped up at Big Bend National Park
A new plant species previously unknown to science was discovered at Big Bend National Park in West Texas. The tiny plant, affectionately called "Wooly" or "Wooly Devil," was found sprinkled among ...
USA Today21d
Meet the 'Wooly Devil,' the new plant species discovered at Big Bend National Park
Big Bend National Park announced Monday. A newly published study in the botanical journal PhytoKeys said the Ovicula biradiata, or the "Wooly Devil," as botanists have come to call it ...
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New 'wooly devil' fuzzy plant species discovered in Texas’ Big Bend National Park
"In March 2024, a volunteer with the Big Bend National Park botany program ... "wooly" and "wooly devil."They chose the name Ovicula, which means "tiny sheep" in Latin, due to the plant's fuzzy ...