Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers has sequenced for the first time the nuclear genome of the koala lemur (Megaladapis edwardsi), one of the largest of the 17 ...

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers -- led by Penn State and with a multi-national team of collaborators including scientists from the ...

“Oh my god! How do they manage to walk and climb without bumping these things onto every branch?” asked Johanna Rode-Margono the first time she saw the testicles of a giant mouse lemur close up. In ...

Just a few thousand years ago, Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. Just a few thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs. How did such a diverse group of primates ...

A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar’s Ranobe forest, WWF said. Last year during a night survey monitoring biodiversity along the gallery forest of ...

Using DNA extracted from the remains of extinct giant lemurs like this sloth lemur (genus Palaeopropithecus), researchers aim to better understand why Madagascar's largest lemurs were wiped out, and ...

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Ladies and gentlemen, friends and foes, I’m here to announce a brand new member of my family: A six-and-a-half-foot tall, bright blue lemur that my daughter named Blue.