What makes a genus real? Scientists use tree bats to evaluate a testable '2 Sigma Genus Concept'

Dr. Amy Baird, Professor of Biology at the University of Houston-Downtown (UHD), and her colleagues are seeking to change the ...
Science Daily

Economically valuable sweet-gum trees: Taxonomy and nine new combinations

Trees in the sweet-gum family Altingiaceae are well-known for their quality timber, use as ornamentals, the source of styrax, and from Chinese medicine. The three previously recognized genera ...
Orange County Register

Scientists ID new genus of tree frogs long thought extinct

NEW DELHI – For more than a century, two mysterious tree frog specimens collected by a British naturalist in 1870 and housed at the Natural History Museum in London were assumed to be part of a ...
Mongabay

Rediscovered tree frogs get their own genus, eat their own eggs

Researchers have rediscovered populations of tree frogs in several northern Indian states and China that were presumed extinct for 150 years. The frogs are unique enough to merit their own genus – the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

A New, Endemic Tree Species Discovered in an Indigenous Area is Already Threatened

Botanists from the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) named the new species, Clusia nanophylla, because of the tiny size of the leaves, the smallest within the genus. This species has only ...
Hindustan Times

New genus of tree frog discovered in Andaman Islands and Northeast India

A team of Indian, Chinese, Indonesian and Thai researchers have found a new genus of frogs in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and India’s northeast, according to November 12 issue of Zootaxa, an ...
Phys.org

Hidden Inca treasure: Remarkable new tree genus discovered in the Andes

Hidden in plain sight - that's how researchers describe their discovery of a new genus of large forest tree commonly found, yet previously scientifically unknown, in the tropical Andes. Researchers ...