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genus

[jee-nuhs] / ˈdʒi nəs /


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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

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

Yet dwarf reedsnakes belonging to the genus Pseudorabdion have found a way around these limitations.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026

Both houseflies and mosquitoes of the genus Culex began to show resistance to the sprays.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

Since the behavioral data did not always align perfectly with the species in that phylogeny, the researchers simplified the evolutionary tree to 44 genera, along with five families and one superfamily.

From Science Daily ● May 2, 2026

Dr Matthew McCurry, Curator of Palaeontology, Australian Museum, said the discovery of three new genera of monotremes helps to piece together their remarkable evolutionary story.

From Science Daily ● May 27, 2024

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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