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Most mushrooms containing this compound belong to the gilled mushroom genus Psilocybe.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026

The new genus, Laurinque, is derived from "Laurinquë," which means "golden tree" in Quenya, the Elvish language created by J.R.R.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 8, 2026

Their results placed the specimen securely within the Diplodocus genus and identified it as a close relative of Diplodocus hallorum.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 19, 2026

Much of the work focused on the genus Myotis, which includes some species with exceptionally long lifespans.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Marie-Laure is not a collector in the way that Dr. Geffard was, an amasser, always looking to scurry down the scales of order, family, genus, species, and subspecies.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Only five genera in the Cryptobranchidae family had previously been described, making the recognition of another genus an important addition to scientists' understanding of giant salamander diversity.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 2026

For example, the same bacterial genera showed glyphosate resistance across all three environments.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

In the end, the team used data from about 60 percent of all modern genera of plants.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2024

Using this method, the team sequenced part of the nuclear genomes from about 8000 genera of angiosperms—about 60% of all flowering plants on Earth—and compared 353 of their genes.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 23, 2024

According to current estimates, within that short interval, North America lost thirty-four out of its forty-seven genera of large mammals.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Almost 300 biologists have banded together and redrawn the tree of life for flowering plants, enabling a 15-fold increase in the number of genuses represented and highlighting new milestones in diversification.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 24, 2024

There are more than 100 species of Nepenthes, which is one of the many genuses of carnivorous plants found around the world.

From New York Times ● May 18, 2022

Anemone and Aster are large genuses in their own right, filled with poppy- and daisy-like blooms.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

Paleontologists have documented five new genuses of dinosaurs and six previously unknown species since research began in the 1980s in partnership with French scientists.

From New York Times ● Jul. 13, 2010

Then I goes to the old 'uns, and says to them, what genuses for music these young 'uns be! it is your duty to improve a talent that providence has bestowed on your children.

From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Susanna Moodie