With rodent teeth, bat-like ears and a woodpecker-inspired hunting strategy, this primate may just be one of evolution’s ...

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 ...

We’ve always thought aye-ayes looked like a little like horrendously malformed koalas. In fact, they’re actually lemurs — lemurs with the freakiest fingers we’ve ever seen. In this, the latest in Ze ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The world’s largest nocturnal primate—the aye-aye—is ...

It's rough being an endangered aye-aye lemur: It takes 2 to 3 hours to copulate, and if you don't have a good teacher, you may never procreate at all. A pair of the nocturnal creatures from Madagascar ...

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 ...

The aye-aye — a bizarre, nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with its fingers to find its insect prey — was the first of its family to branch off from the rest of the lemur line some 66 million years ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Duke Lemur Center recently welcomed the first aye-aye to be born at the center in six years. Named after the late best-selling mystery writer Agatha Christie, the infant is one of only 24 aye-ayes ...

Born on November 23rd, 2007 at Bristol Zoo Gardens this baby Aye-aye was given the name Raz. According to the EDGE (Evolutionary Distinct and Globally Endangered) organization this is only the second ...