The lemurs of Madagascar are at the centre of a new mystery. Scientists believe the story of how they arrived on the island is more complex than we thought. After looking again at the fossil ...

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 ...

Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs inhabit the island of Madagascar off the east coast of Africa. The pygmy mouse lemur is the smallest primate in the world. Its head and body are less than two and a ...

More information: Joseph D. Orkin et al, Ecological and anthropogenic effects on the genomic diversity of lemurs in Madagascar, Nature Ecology & Evolution (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02596-1 ...

Lemurs, which starred as loveable supporting characters in the Dreamworks "Madagascar" movies, are found only on the Indian Ocean island, and experts say they are threatened by trafficking into ...

Almost every species of lemur, wide-eyed primates unique to Madagascar, is under threat of extinction. That is the conclusion of an international group of conservationists, who carried out an ...

And there's no better place to see how it works 'than in the forests of Madagascar. There, at the top of the tree, is an Indri, which is the largest lemur in Madagascar. The reason it's thought ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Threatened: Lemurs in Madagascar's Vohibola forest are in danger of being wiped out by ...

In one of the largest repatriation operations of its kind, almost 1,000 trafficked lemurs and tortoises were successfully returned from Thailand to Madagascar. A photo released on November 27 ...