An international team of scientists has discovered stylistically unique ancient drawings, including the only known prehistoric depiction of a now-extinct...
A species of mouse lemur believed to be new to science has been found in the tropical forests of northeastern Madagascar.
Outer morphology of the Jonah’s...
An international team of herpetologists from Germany and Madagascar has discovered and described three new species of chameleons from the Calumma nasutum...
German herpetologist Mark Scherz has discovered a new species of diamond frog living in northern Madagascar.
Rhombophryne ellae. Image credit: Mark Scherz.
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A new species of gondwanatherian mammal from the Cretaceous period has been identified from a very well-preserved fossilized skeleton found on the island...
A team of marine biologists has discovered two new species of six-gilled sawsharks living in the waters of the West Indian Ocean.
Pliotrema kajae, adult...
Majungasaurus, a carnivorous dinosaur that lived approximately 70 million years ago (Cretaceous period) in what is now Madagascar, grew new teeth roughly...
An international team of researchers from North Carolina State University and CNRS have found that aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis) possess pseudothumbs...
In two new species of giant stick insects from the dry forests of Madagascar, males turn blue or multicolored at sexual maturity.
Achrioptera manga, an...
An international team led by Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München scientist Mark Scherz has described a new genus and five new species of tiny frogs...
The recently extinct Malagasy elephant birds included the largest birds ever discovered. Seven species are recognized across two genera, including the...
After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, a team of researchers at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology has...
Exceptionally large individuals of Beelzebufo ampinga, an extinct species of frog that lived in Madagascar during the Late Cretaceous epoch, about 68 million...
Named Razanandrongobe sakalavae, the ancient predatory crocodile had a deep skull and powerful jaws with enormous serrated teeth that are similar in size...
A bizarre new species of the fish-scale gecko genus Geckolepis has been found living in the ‘tsingy’ karst formations of northern Madagascar.
Geckolepis...
A new dwarf lemur species has been discovered in the dry and transitional forests of northern Madagascar, according to a paper published in the latest...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Madagascar has described a new, possibly microendemic, species of the snake genus Madagascarophis...
New research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides the first archaeological evidence for an early Southeast Asian presence...
A rare specimen of the titanosaur Rapetosaurus krausei from the Cretaceous of Madagascar sheds light on early life in the smallest stage of one of the...
