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 ...

Without many other mammalian competitors, those early lemurs evolved into a dizzying array of forms, everything from teacup-sized mouse lemurs to giant sloth lemurs. Many of these lemurs have ...

This led to many forms of lemurs that ranged from tiny mouse-like ones to giant sloth ones. The lemurs that we know today are small with big eyes and live in trees. More than 100 species live in ...

A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar’s Ranobe forest, WWF said. Last year during a night survey monitoring biodiversity along the gallery forest of ...

the White-footed sportive lemur Propithecus verreauxi: Verreaux’s sifaka Microcebus griseorufus: the gray brown mouse lemur. This sleepy mouse lemur is part of a study by Malagasy researcher Emilienne ...

from humpback whales to pygmy mouse lemurs, and even the mystical and deadly fossa. In episode one, the gang arrives in Madagascar and immediately heads out to track down some of the planet's most ...

Madagascar is home to an extraordinary level of endemic biodiversity, but quantifying this is complicated by cryptic diversity among some genera such as mouse lemurs (genus Microcebus).