As part of her responsibilities as Big Bend’s only staff botanist, Carolyn Whiting had assigned Manley to map and monitor the park’s rare plants. Powell and researchers at the California ...

Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to establish an agency to fast-track the construction of big power plants and dangle hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks for projects providing ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas – A new plant species has been discovered at Big Bend National Park, the park announced in a news release Monday. In March 2024, two staff members found tiny plants ...

Walking through the boundless landscape of red rocks and limestone cliffs in Texas' Big Bend National Park last March, a volunteer and a park ranger came across a plant they didn't recognize.

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Staffers at Big Bend National Park discovered a new plant species “previously unknown to science,” the National Park Service confirmed Monday. Last March, a Big Bend National ...

A new plant species, dubbed the "wooly devil," has been discovered in Big Bend National Park by park staff and confirmed by ...

Scientists have several new species to study, including a fuzzy plant that was recently found in Texas’s Big Bend National Park. Park volunteer Deb Manley and supervisor Cathy Hoyt stumbled ...

The plant, formally known as Ovicula biradiata, is especially notable for being the simultaneous discovery of a new species and genus. It was found with help from the community science app iNaturalist ...

Researchers say odd-looking plants discovered by a volunteer and supervisory interpretive park ranger at a U.S. National Park are a new species.The unique plant was found growing on desert rocks ...

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 ...