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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Velizar Simeonovski A giant lemur in Ampasambazimba, Madagascar, approximately 2,000 years ago, with elephant birds One terrible day about 3,700 years ago, a herd of dwarf hippos stopped to drink at ...

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.

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 ...