A study of nocturnal lemurs in Madagascar known for their smarts, beaver-like teeth, and long, thin middle fingers may point to the future of endangered species conservation: cheap and fast genome ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The little guy won’t win any beauty contests, unless beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But the baby aye-aye, an endangered primate species found only in ...

The mountain pygmy possum of Australia, the aye-aye of Madagascar and Leadbeater’s possum of Australia are the top three mammals that we should try to save, according to an improved method for ...

For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes -- a type of lemur -- have been sequenced and analyzed in an effort to characterize patterns of genetic diversity and ...

The aye-aye is the newest member of an exclusive club: animals that pick their nose. The primates from Madagascar have been recorded for the first time inserting their eight-centimetre-long finger ...

Found just a little over 400 kilometers (250 miles) off the coast of Mozambique, the island of Madagascar is not only the ...

The night is dark and full of...lemurs? A rare aye-aye was born at Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina last month. The nocturnal creature native to Madagascar was named Melisandre, after the "Game of ...

The aye-aye — a bizarre, nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with its fingers to find its insect prey — was the first of its family to branch off from the rest of the lemur line some 66 million years ...

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Keepers at the San Diego Zoo checked the weight of a one-month-old female aye-aye Thursday, under the watchful eye of her mother. After distracting mom for a short time with a ...

A new study has, for the first time, measured the extent to which the endangered aye-aye has evolved similar features to squirrels, despite being more closely related to monkeys, chimps, and humans.

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