It was tiny – only a few centimeters long – with striking red petals and green leaves covered in what appeared to be thick white wool. Deb Manley, the volunteer, snapped pictures of the plant ...

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 ...

The small plant, officially named “Ovicula biradiata" and more affectionately called “wooly devil,” was first spotted in March 2024.(Big Bend National Park) A “wooly” plant is among a ...

“Ovicula” means “tiny sheep,” which is a nod to the desert bighorn sheep that live in the park, as well as the thick, white, fuzzy “wool” covering the plant’s leaves. The second part ...

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 ...

Last week, science delivered a really cute experimental result. Researchers created a “colossal woolly mouse,” a fluffy rodent that’s purported to be a step on the way to resurrecting woolly ...

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For short, they nicknamed the plant "wooly" or "wooly devil." "Now that the species has been identified and named, there is a tremendous amount we have yet to learn about it," said Big Bend ...

Woolly mammoths roamed the frozen tundras of Europe, Asia and North America until they went extinct around 4,000 years ago. Colossal made a splash in 2021 when it unveiled an ambitious plan to ...