What the great Texas bighorn sheep experiment tells us about rewilding the West
But on a warm afternoon in December, 77 of these animals were captured near the town of Alpine and hauled back home to build ...
Scientific American5d
Meet the ‘Woolly Devil,’ the Strangest Sunflower You’ve Ever Seen
A tiny, woolly flower found hiding in Texas’s Big Bend National Park shows the intriguing strangeness of sunflowers ...
Smithsonian Magazine26d
Meet the ‘Wooly Devil,’ the First New Plant Genus Discovered in a National Park Since 1976
A volunteer spotted the tiny, fuzzy plant with maroon florets while exploring the remote northern corner of Big Bend National ...
‘Rarest of rare’ animal spotted in Texas desert
The desert mule deer is a common sight in west Texas, but wildlife biologists in the area came across an extremely uncommon ...
USA Today13d
‘Rarest of rare’ animal spotted in Texas desert
The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists conducted surveys recently, they came across an extremely uncommon sight. In fact ...