The giant trees, swollen of trunk and stubby of canopy, are unmistakable. Baobabs can live for more than 1,000 years, acting as the keystone species in dry forest environments in Madagascar ...

Malagasy people have been using Madagascar’s unique native plants for food, medicine and handcrafts for thousands of years.

The giant Madagascar palm will be called Tahina spectabilis, which is Malagasy for blessed or to be protected. On the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, botanists have discovered a new species of ...

Giant tortoises are roaming the forests of Madagascar for the for the first ... trampling vegetation and dispersing large ...

Mesites? Have you ever seen a giraffe-necked weevil? An octopus tree? The three-cornered palm? Madagascar has lizards that scream, giant cockroaches that hiss, and trees that hold 200 gallons of ...