genus

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According to Scheffrahn, the insect's appearance was so unusual that researchers initially believed they might be looking at an entirely new genus.

From Science Daily • Apr. 1, 2026

However, this marks the first new genus of Early Jurassic ichthyosaur described from the region in more than 100 years.

From Science Daily • Feb. 24, 2026

The public naming campaign began after Ze Frank featured the rare deep-sea chiton from the genus Ferreiraella in an episode of his "True Facts" YouTube series.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 2026

The newly identified species, named Araneothrombium brasiliensis, belongs to a genus first described in Costa Rica in 2017.

From Science Daily • Jan. 28, 2026

Yet the real meaning of the word human is ‘an animal belonging to the genus Homo’, and there used to be many other species of this genus besides Homo sapiens.

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