The nocturnal Aye-Aye lemur, native to Madagascar, possesses a uniquely thin and elongated middle finger crucial for its survival. This remarkable adaptation allows the Aye-Aye to locate wood-boring ...

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 ...

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 ...

My mother used to tell me I’m a unique snowflake, and also that this is my last warning to stop monkeying with the damn thermostat. But let’s face it, I’m not unique. You’re not either. We’re all born ...

Aye-ayes, the scraggly, bug-eyed, spindly-fingered lemurs of Madagascar, have historically been demonized by humans for their unusual and unappealing anatomy. But the species is going to have to get ...

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 ...

You've probably never seen an aye-aye. And you may never want to see one. It's a bizarre, ugly-looking creature—sort of a cross between a wolverine, a koala, and a raccoon with big ears; yellowish, ...

The first question that pops into your mind may be what is it? Meet Tonks, an aye-aye, and she's one of rarest animals of the world. There are only 24 aye-ayes living in seven zoos in the U.S., KMGH ...

The Duke Lemur Center has lost four endangered aye-ayes to a mysterious illness that struck within a 24-hour period – a string of fatalities that is unprecedented in the center’s 50-year history. Two ...

A baby aye-aye — an endangered lemur species native to Madagascar — has been born at Bristol Zoo. The unnamed infant arrived two months ago but its doting mother, five-year-old Tahiry, kept it away ...