genus

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

Ecological modeling also indicated that the new species favors a different type of habitat than similar members of the genus.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026

The species shared its world with early members of the genus Homo but followed a very different evolutionary path.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 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

Still another development in eastern and northern Australia was the harvesting of seeds of a wild millet, belonging to the same genus as the broomcorn millet that was a staple of early Chinese agriculture.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond

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

From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026

However, several bacterial genera were more common in individuals that skipped the hot springs.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 3, 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

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

Genus, a sort, becomes genera in Latin, and genuses in English.

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown