Madagascar has created a network of protected areas to conserve its unique wildlife, including lemurs. These reserves serve ...

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 ...

of how the sieve of natural selection produces animals that are perfectly adapted to live in their environment. Professor Brian Cox visits Madagascar to track down the rare aye-aye lemur ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- It’s quite possible that no one in the world has diagnosed, treated, and otherwise cared for more lemurs than veterinarian Dr. Cathy Williams. Since joining the Duke Lemur Center in ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...

Madagascar, a jewel of biodiversity, appears like a failing state. Since breaking up with France in 1960, Madagascar’s been ...

Tucked away at Broad Street, north of East Campus, is a museum holding a new exhibit of fossils designed to teach us about how lemurs and humans evolved. The small Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural ...

Lemurs are also extremely social animals and like to hang out in groups called “troops.” In other words, King Julian needs to make it to a safe rescue environment soon, he said. But the future ...