Sentences with phrase «new genus»

The phrase "new genus" refers to a newly discovered group or category of living things. It is used in the field of biology to classify and organize various species. A new genus represents a distinct and unique type of organisms that share certain common characteristics. Full definition
A whole new genus of inexplicable machine, the X6 in one fell swoop nearly undoes all the design good that BMW has done for the planet.
Several million species of animals are recognised, and more than 2000 new genus names and 15,000 new species names are added to the zoological literature every year.
This is a brand new developer and a brand new genera for Mario, taking the classic characters that gamers have grown to know and love throughout generations of gaming and putting them in an unfamiliar setting.
It represents not only a new species, but an entirely new genus.
We hope to bring some of the polish of the Bioshock games to whole new genera and platform.
The second new genus, named Arcanusa, is established based on a species already discovered back in 2003, however, misplaced in another genus.
Having named one of the two new genera Androconia, the scientists acknowledge a peculiar characteristic feature in these moths.
«New new genus and species of extinct baleen whale identified.»
Through DNA analysis and skull comparisons, however, Smithsonian scientists and colleagues have now clarified the Caribbean species» place on the seal family tree and created a completely new genus.
This new discovery is the third new genus described by this group of scientists since 2012, and identifies a rodent with features never seen by the scientific community before.
Yet, these are only part of the reasons why the new planthopper needed to have a separate new genus established for itself.
These animals Esselstyn and his colleagues have described are new species within new genera, because the animals could not be placed within any existing group.
Xu K, Yuan Z, Rayner S, Hu X. Genome comparison provides molecular insights into the phylogeny of the reassigned new genus Lysinibacillus.
During two months of intense work with several specialists from Missouri Botanical Garden, Rodolfo came back with more than 20 plant species new to science, which now await description, and more than 15 new plant records to Panama, including one new genus for Mesoamerica.
What's more, DNA analysis shows it's not just a new species, but an entirely new genus.
At least some of the early Christian groups thought of themselves as a new genus of mankind, or as the restored original mankind.
The authors of the new study have proposed that the Haarlem specimen be assigned to a new genus, for which they suggest the name Ostromia — in honor of the American paleontologist John Ostrom, who first identified the fossil as a theropod dinosaur.
C. praetermissus was different enough from other chaetognaths to be labeled not only a new species, but also a new genus.
The foot and ankle bone seen here belonged to a large, plant - eating sauropodomorph called Glacialisaurus hammeri, a new genus and species of dinosaur that lived during the Early Jurassic period, approximately 190 million years ago.
«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.
It took getting down to the molecular level to discern this new genus
«I am delighted to have this new genus named after me.»
They looked like those of modern Asiatic kiangs, but thanks to the research of my esteemed colleagues they are now known to belong to a new genus,» said Harington.
They named six new genera and about 30 new species as they explored a 0.2 square kilometer (0.08 square mile) area of reef, much of which is too deep for enough light to penetrate to support the algal symbionts on which reef - building corals rely.
So far, five such surveys, held near remote coastal areas around the country, have produced a treasure trove of new data: 260 new species, 36 new genera, and two new families.
They prove to be a new genus and species.
Researchers have decoded the chemistry of the first of a wealth of unique compounds produced by a new genus of bacteria that dwells in deep - ocean sediments, and they have found it to be a potent inhibitor of human cancers in lab experiments.
Last fall, the Fenical team reported the discovery of a marine counterpart to actinomycetes — a new genus, Salinospora, that seems to have as much potential as its terrestrial cousins did.
The paleontologists who analyzed two partial skulls found in South Carolina — one recently discovered by a diver and the other unearthed from the same formation more than 30 years ago — put the long - extinct creature in a new genus dubbed Inermorostrum, which roughly translated from Latin means «defenseless snout.»
FEEDBACK»S quest to classify fruitloop «remedies» appears to have uncovered a new genus: high - tech plants.
The researchers examined and compared them to other known species and ultimately created a new genus for the species, because it does not resemble other known sleeper gobies.
The careful examination of fossil fragments from Panama has led Smithsonian scientists and colleagues to the discovery of a new genus and species of river dolphin that has been long extinct.
Coming up with a new genus based on newly discovered individuals has happened only a couple times since the 1800s, the scientists say.
The new genus and species of extinct baleen whale is based on a skull and associated bones unearthed from the Kokoamu Greensand, a noted fossil - bearing rock unit in the South Canterbury and Waitaki district from the Oligocene period, which extends from about 33.9 million to 23 million years ago.
The researchers think they have collected three other species of this new genus, but have yet to describe and name them.
The name of the new genus, Isthminia, recognizes both the Panama Isthmus and the fossil specimen's living relative, the Amazon river dolphin, Inia geoffrensis.
Researchers have described a new genus and species of cavefish from Mexico — the Oaxaca Cave Sleeper.
Former PhD student in the University of Otago's Department of Geology, Cheng - Hsiu Tsai and his supervisor, Professor Ewan Fordyce, have named the new genus Toipahautea waitaki, which translates in Māori as a baleen - origin whale from the Waitaki region.
The new genus is represented by two extinct species, Pseudomegachasma casei from Russia and Pseudomegachasma comanchensis from the U.S. that evolved from a group of extinct sandtiger sharks that likely had a fish - eating diet.
It represents a new genus and species, which Pyenson and Boersma have named Arktocara yakataga.
The study not only describes a new genus and species of bird - like dinosaur that lived during the Campanian stage of the Cretaceous in Mongolia but also sheds light on an unexpected amphibious lifestyle for raptorial dinosaurs.
«But to be able to name a new genus, and a seal genus at that, is incredibly rare and a great honor.»
This remarkable discovery is the first time in more than 140 years that a new genus has been recognized amongst modern pinnipeds (seals, sea lions, and walruses).
The ESRF data revealed that the fossil represents a new genus and species of amphibious dinosaur that walked on two legs on land, with postural adaptations similar to short - tailed birds (like ducks), but used its flipper - like forelimbs to manoeuvre in water (like penguins and other aquatic birds), relying on its long neck for foraging and ambush hunting.
Among the rich finds: a fossil sand dollar that Charles Darwin picked up in Patagonia in 1834, during his voyage on the Beagle; an exquisite coiled boa constrictor skeleton, 300 vertebrae long; and Nabokov's wooden cabinet of butterfly genitalia, the study of which enabled him to name seven new genera of Latin American blues.
On the off chance that the dinosaur turns out to be a new genus of brachiosaurid, the museum plans to name it Sonorasaurus thompsoni.
A year later, he discovered microbes involved in the nitrogen cycle and placed them in two new genera, Nitrosomonas and Nitrosococcus.
Paleontologists have placed the creature in a new genus named Calvapilosa («hairy scalp» in Latin).
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