as would having another pair of eyes in the back of our heads – but what about two tongues? That might sound like the stuff of nightmares to us, but for lemurs, it’s far more helpful than ...

and two tongues. Social grooming is one way ... to avoid illegally logged and exported wood from Madagascar. Black-and-white ruffed lemurs are found in the lush rainforests of northeast Madagascar.

Answers to such questions are beyond our grasp, but the diverse array of lemurs which dwell on Madagascar are a stunning example of evolutionary diversification on an island. After the ancestors ...

High in the canopies of Madagascar’s eastern rainforests live two critically endangered species of ruffed lemur, among the most famous of the island’s wildlife. Now, new models of climate ...

Living in the rain forests of Madagascar is a newly discovered wonder of ecological diversity: A lemur that has been hiding out in the middle of about a dozen other lemur species. The new lemur is ...

Madagascar, nicknamed the “8 th Continent ... Biologists have discovered two new species of lemur, endangered primates that are ancestral to monkeys and apes, and that exist now only on ...

This is based on the study of two fossil species, one from Kenya and one from Egypt, that data to well after the earliest lemurs were supposed to have made it to Madagascar. And these two fossils ...

Madagascar is home to a unique biodiversity ... They analysed the mouse lemur genome and identified viruses of two classes that represent ancient infections of the mouse lemur germline.