Lemurs are primates found only on the African island of Madagascar and some tiny neighboring islands. Because of its geographic isolation, Madagascar is home to many amazing animals found nowhere ...

That might sound like the stuff of nightmares to us, but for lemurs, it’s far more helpful than horror-like. If you’re ...

The lemurs of Madagascar face probable extinction within the next half-century if adequate conservation programs are not developed. Habitat loss remains the major threat to primate survival, with this ...

The Golden Bamboo Lemur was discovered only in 1987 and is one of the most threatened primates in Madagascar. It is patchily distributed over a small area of rain forest in south-eastern Madagascar.

Some creatures have come up with a way to reverse this process, at least temporarily. Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate can turn back the cellular aging ...

Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate can turn back the cellular aging clock and momentarily defy time during its annual hibernation season, according to ...

Lemurs are one family of primates Kirindy has no shortage of. There are no less than eight lemur species here, from the tiny ...

Ring-tailed lemurs look different! They retain a number of primitive mammalian traits. For example: Reflective tapetum lucidum, which is a layer of cells in the wall of the eye that reflects light ...