Most people's encounters with lemurs have occurred through their representations in popular children's media, like "Zoboomafoo" or "Madagascar." However, most people don't know that lemurs play an ...

In the rainforests of Madagascar, it can feel like you’ve stepped into another world. The air hums with life, dense with the ...

Madagascar has more unique species of animals than any location except Australia, which is 13 times larger. The island's population includes 70 kinds of lemurs found nowhere else and about 90 ...

Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, is the sole home to a wide variety of animal species, most of which are thought to have reached Madagascar after plate tectonics separated it from ...

Watch a tenrec take a dust bath in a tiny tub and find out how this unusual hygiene habit helps with grooming, scenting, and ...

Why is Madagascar’s wildlife so unique? Their ancestors may have rafted over. It’s long been a mystery how the ancestors of gremlin-like aye-ayes and satanic leaf-tailed geckos got to the island.

After all, I had swung halfway around the globe to view lemurs in Madagascar, the only place on Earth where the primitive primates are native, live in the wild (112 species at last count), and ...

When humans began settling on the island about 2,300 years ago, Madagascar's large vertebrate populations were the first casualties. Dozens of species disappeared altogether, including 17 giant ...

Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered tortoises and lemurs home to Madagascar in a landmark victory against animal trafficking, with the first batch on its way on Saturday.