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

A new plant species, Ovicula biradiata, has been discovered in Big Bend National Park, marking the first such discovery in a ...

(CNN) - Staff members at Big Bend National Park discovered a brand-new plant. They spotted several odd-looking plants on desert rocks in a remote part of the park. Genetic analysis revealed that not ...

Meet "wooly devil," a fuzzy new plant species discovered at a national park in Texas is a brand new species. Botanists are ...

The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata, was first spotted by botany volunteer Deb Manley and a park ranger in March 2024, according to the park service. The tiny, fuzzy-looking plants with yellow ...

AUSTIN ( KXAN) – Texas is big — so big, it seems, that there are still things to be discovered in the state. Staffers at Big ...

It’s in the same family as daisies. Researchers named it Ovicula biradiata. Ovicula is Latin for tiny sheep, for the fuzz that resembles wool covering it. And biradiata refers to the two ray ...

The plant’s name, Ovicula biradiata, pays tribute to its fuzzy exterior. Ovicula means “tiny sheep” — apropos for the white “wool” coating the plant’s leaves, the National Park ...

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