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 ...

A tiny primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, has an amazing ability—it can slow down cellular aging while it ...

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 ...

Although you'll have ample opportunities to spot lemurs in national parks like Mantadia and Lokobe, for even more chances to see these furry creatures, travel 16 miles southwest of Antananarivo to ...

My visit to Madagascar was during baby season for lemurs, which was wonderful. I ended up seeing many species carrying very ...

There are no showtimes for this date. A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as ...

The lemurs of Madagascar face probable extinction within the next half-century if adequate conservation programs are not developed. Habitat loss remains the major threat to primate survival, with this ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

Several dozen lemurs and more than 900 tortoises endemic to Madagascar that were trafficked to Thailand will be returned home this week, the Indian Ocean island-nation’s Environment Ministry said.

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 ...