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These freshwater wetlands harbor abundant species of bacteria in the Mycobacterium genus -- the same genus as the tuberculosis-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

One day 1.5 million years ago, two or three individuals of our genus Homo walked along a muddy lakeshore.

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.