The sunflower family tree has revealed that flower symmetry evolved multiple times independently, a process called convergent evolution, among the members of this large plant family, according to ...

Deb Manley—a volunteer walking the rugged backcountry of Big Bend National Park after a recent rain—noticed tiny, strange ...

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 ...

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

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," said Issac Lichter Marck, a researcher at the California Academy of ...

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," explains Academy researcher Isaac Lichter Marck, PhD. Even if you ...

"O. biradiata is a member of the sunflower family, although it does not resemble its sunburst-shaped relatives at first glance," Isaac Lichter Marck, one of the authors of the study, told the ...

A whole team assembled to study samples of these plants. "It was very clear at first that it was a member of the sunflower family, because all members of the sunflower family have flowers that are ...