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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. One ...

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 ...