genus

The genus name uncus means “hook” in Latin, after the fishhooklike squiggles on the rock left by the fossils.

"It describes a new genus and species, but places them in the phylogeny of tardigrades," Nelson told Salon.

An extremely abundant genus of sea sponge discovered in 2017 lives on the nodules.

It’s much more common to find a false black widow indoors, which are from a different genus and are less toxic than black widows, Vetter said.

“We already knew about the existence of giant genomes in the genus but did not anticipate that the one in Tmesipteris oblanceolata was going to beat any previous records.”