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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Syzygium is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs in the myrtle family that contains more than 1,500 species. Only 14 of those were previously known to occur on Sulawesi, the world’s eleventh-largest ...

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 ...

NEW DELHI (AP) — 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 ...

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 – Two mysterious tree frogs found by a British naturalist in 1870 were long assumed to be part of a vanished species, never again found in the wild. Until now. Scientists led by Indian ...

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 ...