Aye-ayes are a species of Madagascan lemur. (David Haring/Duke Lemur Center) Unusual animals called aye-ayes, a species of Madagascan lemur, could have scampered fully formed from Edgar Allan Poe’s ...

The aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis) is the largest nocturnal primate. It is native to the island of Madagascar and known for its weird morphological features. Appearing to be half bat, half ...

DENVER, Colorado ” Aye-aye ay-yi-yi! A very rare animal with the body of a monkey, the tail of a squirrel and a rodent-like face has arrived at the Denver Zoo. In fact, the Denver Zoo obtained two of ...

If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger ...

Research scientist Eleanor Sterling spent almost two years stumbling through the dark forests of Madagascar in an effort to better understand the aye-eye, perhaps one of the most endangered species on ...

Get to know the Aye-Aye: Madagascar’s mysterious night primate. Learn its distinctive characteristics, behaviors, and why this unusual lemur is interesting to scientists and animal enthusiasts. The ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Aye-ayes are ...

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 ...

Alright, let’s talk about the aye-aye, the creepiest critter you’ll ever meet from the wilds of Madagascar. This nocturnal lemur looks like it rolled straight out of a Tim Burton movie, with its buggy ...

A new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

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 ...

Aye-aye lemurs look a bit like gremlins, with pronounced, clawed middle fingers, and these primates’ hands have been fascinating scientists for years. New research shows that the little lemurs, ugly ...