Researchers have described a new genus of tree of the Aptandraceae family, a group that is related to the sandalwoods (order Sanatalales). The genus, which has been given the name Hondurodendron, is ...

This remarkable image greeted me when I opened my Twitter feed yesterday morning: spacer Researchers gathered nearly 7,000 evolutionary trees from 3,000 studies and fed them into a database. They then ...

It seemed rather unusual that the largest tree genus, Syzygium, containing over 1500 species, was only represented by about a dozen of records on the biodiversity-rich island of Sulawesi, the latest ...

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 ...

Botanists discover new species of plants relatively frequently, but describing a new genus may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. A team led by Carmen Ulloa, associate curator at the Missouri ...

NEW DELHI, Jan. 21 (UPI) --A group of tree frog species scientists thought had gone extinct has turned out to be rather abundant in India and elsewhere in Asia. The golf ball-sized frogs were ...

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 ...