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Much of the work focused on the genus Myotis, which includes some species with exceptionally long lifespans.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026
Homo erectus, or H.erectus, occupies an important place in human evolutionary history because it was the first species in the genus Homo known to have migrated out of Africa.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026
The plant was growing at an elevation of nearly 1,000 meters, an unusually high and seasonally dry environment for members of the genus.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
The chance to name a species produces a curious sort of immortality for the bestowers: Their names might forever be attached to the animals, right after the genus and species.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026
If something is possible for a genus, then it’s possible for a species: that is, if something’s true of insects, it’s true of ants.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
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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
At the time of the Cognitive Revolution, the planet was home to about 200 genera of large terrestrial mammals weighing over 100 pounds.
From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari
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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
This uncanny deadliness has a mystery at its core: These mushrooms are from three separate genuses, or groups of fungal species, that are not closely related.
From New York Times ● May 9, 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
The large tribe, of the marmots, which includes the three large genuses of Arctomys, Cynomys, and Spermophilus, is still more sociable and still more intelligent.
From Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Prince
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