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 ...

For the past 65 million years, mammals have thrived across nearly every corner of Earth. In this time span, they have shaped ...

And unlike with more familiar animals such as dogs and cats, horses and cows, there isn’t a lot of information on, say, proper nutrition for an aye-aye, or how to safely sedate a mouse lemur. Through ...

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 ...

Illustration image from Pixabay With few other competing mammals, these early lemurs evolved into a wide range of forms, from the teacup-sized mouse lemur to the giant sloth lemur. Many of these ...

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).