New research has discovered that lemurs, the small primates native to Madagascar, are capable of exaggerating their size thanks to the unique structure of their larynx. Published in the journal ...

Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, ...

Primates come in a huge range of sizes from the great apes all the way down to a tiny little species known as Madame Berthe’s mouse lemur. Sadly, however, the smallest side of that spectrum may be a ...

A small lemur native to Madagascar may hold unexpected clues to reversing aging, thanks to a surprising cellular ability observed during its long hibernation. Researchers at Duke University and UC San ...

"There are other small carnivores in Madagascar, but they are not big enough to be able to prey upon an adult diademed sifaka because they are among the biggest lemurs. There are not so many predators ...

In Madagascar, one woman is rewriting the fate of a lemur species once thought to be lost. Deep in the forests of Madagascar, one woman is rewriting the fate of a lemur species once thought to be lost ...

Seasonal environmental variation can impose energetic challenges on animals at predictable times of the year. Thus, it is not surprising that animals evolved mechanisms to tune reproduction, metabolic ...

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Climate change is shifting the habitats of endangered species and requiring conservation scientists to think outside traditional park boundaries. A diadem sifaka, a type of lemur, in northern ...