Active-duty military personnel could return to patrol Big Bend National Park for the first time in nearly three decades, following a surge of troops sent to the border by President Donald Trump in January, during his first week in office.

Hikers shared a video that showed a long line forming at Big Bend National Park following Trumps slash of the National Park Service.

The Wooly Devil, or Ovicula biradiata​, was first spotted by botany volunteer Deb Manley and a park ranger in Big Bend National Park in Texas in March 2024.

A new fuzzy plant species called the "Wooly Devil" has been discovered amongst the arid landscapes of Big Bend National Park in Texas.

A new plant species discovered at Big Bend National Park last year has a name. It's affectionately known as the "wooly devil."

For the first time in nearly 30 years, active-duty military personnel could patrol Big Bend National Park. Talks between park leaders and the Department of Defense’s Northern Command are stirring concerns with locals and some onlookers.

The wooly devil is only the latest in a series of remarkable finds in the park. In recent years, scientists have uncovered fossils of a new duck-billed dinosaur and rediscovered a species of oak once thought extinct.

The team sequenced the plant’s DNA and compared it with other specimens in the California Academy of Sciences’ herbarium. The sequencing revealed that this small and fuzzy plant is both a new species within the sunflower group and distinct enough to be a completely new genus.

Meet the wooly devil, a newly discovered plant that was found in Big Bend National Park in Texas in 2024. But it's not just a new species of plant. It's an entirely new genus of daisy not previously documented.

A new plant species, Ovicula biradiata, has been discovered in Big Bend National Park, marking the first such discovery in a U.S. national park in nearly 50 yea

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.

Spanning 801,165 acres and featuring a mix of riparian ecosystems, desert bajadas, and sky island woodlands, Big Bend National Park is a biodiversity treasure. Other cool finds here recently include the fossil of a new duck-billed dinosaur species ( Malefica deckerti) and the rediscovery of an oak ( Quercus tardifolia) once thought extinct.