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genus

[jee-nuhs] / ˈdʒi nəs /


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The sale comes a year after researchers confirmed that the skeleton belongs to a distinct genus.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

"Jodi" was initially exhibited as a juvenile T. rex at London's Frieze Masters international art fair in October 2023, before the Nanotyrannus genus was classified.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The specimen is the first to come to market since the existence of the genus was confirmed by US researchers last October, Sotheby's said.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

To investigate, Domnauer traveled to Yunnan and the Philippines, interviewed local residents, and collected specimens of L. asiatica along with other mushrooms belonging to the Lanmaoa genus.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 25, 2026

Biologists label organisms with a two-part Latin name, genus followed by species.

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

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

"Ajimu contains the only site in the world where fossils of the giant salamander family and extant genera have both been found," says first author Masahiro Noda.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 24, 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

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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