More than 90% of Madagascar’s lemurs “are on the verge of extinction,” says one of the country’s leading scientists. It is a grim prediction for the cute primates, which are only found on Madagascar ...

The strawberry guava, one of the world’s worst invasive species, hinders forest restoration on the island while feeding its ...

The human-driven extinction of fruit-eating lemurs on Madagascar has created multiple "orphan" plant species with precarious futures because their primary seed dispersers are gone, scientists say. The ...

MAINZ, Germany, July 30, 2013 (ENS) – Drenched with rain and working in the dense forests of southern Madagascar, researchers have identified a new species of dwarf lemur previously unknown to science ...

Fruit-eating lemurs are one of the most important dispersers of seeds in Madagascar. But at least 17 species of Malagasy lemurs have gone extinct within the past few thousand years. According to a ...

Madagascar is an island that's no stranger to natural disasters, in particular cyclones. This is because it's located in the south-west Indian Ocean cyclone basin, a region of the Indian Ocean where ...

A pair of endangered lemurs has been imported to the U.S. from Madagascar for the first time in two decades. The Duke Lemur Center announced Thursday that it transferred Mangamaso, a 5-year-old male, ...

Madagascar is one of the world’s most special places. An island slightly larger than the state of California, Madagascar is home to a bewildering array of wildlife from dancing lemurs to absurdly ...

Lemurs are primates like us, but they're the weird cousins. They're found only on Madagascar off the coast of Africa, and they fight by secreting smelly paste from their shoulders and using their ...