Four aye-aye lemurs died suddenly at the Duke Lemur Center on October 25 and 26, center officials said in a news release. There are fewer than 50 aye-ayes in captivity in the world. “We had 13 and now ...

With its spindly fingers and bat-like ears, the aye-aye already stands out from other lemurs. Now, researchers have found a bizarre feature that sets it apart from every other primate, too: a sixth ...

Native to Madagascar, this lemur looks like a strange mix of several animals. It has the round eyes of an owl, the ears of a bat, rodent-like teeth that never stop growing and a wiry, bushy tail ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Meet Melisandre, a baby lemur born at the Duke Lemur Center who is one of only 25 of her kind in the U.S. "Mel" is a rare baby aye-aye, a long-fingered lemur. She's the child of ...

For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes -- a type of lemur -- have been sequenced and analyzed in an effort to characterize patterns of genetic diversity and ...

In the words of Melisandre, “The night is dark and full of terrors” — or, in this case, lemurs. Much like her namesake, a rare “creature of the night” was born in North Carolina at the Duke Lemur ...

The Duke Lemur Center got a new addition this summer when a rare aye-aye was born. The new addition, named Agatha after writer Agatha Christie, was born on June 7 and is the first aye-aye born at the ...

When you belong to one of the oldest species on Earth, you are certainly entitled to a little drink every now and then. And apparently, that's exactly what a type of lemur known as an aye-aye likes to ...

Hiding in the weird creature’s palm was something that scientists had missed. By JoAnna Klein Madagascar’s aye-aye lemur is an endearing aberration of an animal. It has enormous ears, a bushy tail, ...

How weird can a newborn look and still, somehow, be cute? Tonks the baby aye-aye may answer that question. Born at the Denver Zoo on Aug. 8, Tonks is one of only 24 of the nocturnal lemurs in ...

The night is dark and full of...lemurs? A rare aye-aye was born at Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina last month. The nocturnal creature native to Madagascar was named Melisandre, after the "Game of ...