A deer hunter at a far West Texas ranch thought he found a fossil. Here's what is happening to the new mammoth discovery.

A park supervisor and a local volunteer have introduced the world to the “woolly devil,” a plant species no other botanists ...

Drawn by people, dogs or, later, horses, travois were a mainstay of traditional Native American life in the West. Up through ...

The woolly devil—a recently identified plant species—has researchers intrigued because it belongs to a brand new genus.

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 ...

Hispanic and Native American wine producers cultivate vineyards at high altitude and on desert plains in this southwestern ...