The mountain pygmy possum of Australia, the aye-aye of Madagascar and Leadbeater’s possum of Australia are the top three mammals that we should try to save, according to an improved method for ...

The aye-aye — a bizarre, nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with its fingers to find its insect prey — was the first of its family to branch off from the rest of the lemur line some 66 million years ...

The aye-aye looks like something assembled from a nightmare, yet every unsettling feature it possesses serves a brilliant ...

Aug. 1 (UPI) --The aye-aye is one the planet's most unusual primates. Thanks to new research, scientists can explain the lemur's unusual features -- its big eyes, large eyes and long, skinny fingers.

A study of nocturnal lemurs in Madagascar known for their smarts, beaver-like teeth, and long, thin middle fingers may point to the future of endangered species conservation: cheap and fast genome ...

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We’ve always thought aye-ayes looked like a little like horrendously malformed koalas. In fact, they’re actually lemurs — lemurs with the freakiest fingers we’ve ever seen. In this, the latest in Ze ...

A new study has, for the first time, measured the extent to which the endangered aye-aye has evolved similar features to squirrels, despite being more closely related to monkeys, chimps, and humans.

In one published swoop, an ancient fossil fruit bat has turned into a lemur. If that transformation holds, it suggests that lemur ancestors made two tricky sea crossings from Africa to Madagascar, not ...

Nose picking might be thought of as a socially unacceptable behavior among humans but amazingly we are one of 12 species of primate to exhibit this habit. Today a new paper has revealed this behavior ...

The aye-aye is about as ridiculous looking as a primate can get: beady yellow eyes, bat-like ears, and hands like horrible spiders. But perhaps its most interesting feature is its teeth. Over millions ...

It is one of the most unusual primates on the planet—famed for its large eyes, big ears and thin, bony finger used for probing. Often persecuted as a harbinger of evil, the aye-aye has fascinated ...