Apr 15, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Three new species of the genus Microcebus (mouse lemurs) have been discovered by an international team of scientists from the German Primate Center, the...

Jan 4, 2016 by News Staff

According to Brown University researcher Dr Christopher Anderson, small chameleon species project their tongues further than large species, achieving projection...

Oct 12, 2015 by News Staff

In northern Madagascar’s Montagne d’Ambre National Park, Dr Runhua Lei of the Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and his colleagues from Australia,...

Jul 27, 2015 by News Staff

A new species of diamond frog has been found living in the high altitude forests of the Sorata massif in north Madagascar. Rhombophryne longicrus in life....

Jun 24, 2015 by News Staff

 California Academy of Sciences entomologists, Dr Rick Overson and Dr Brian Fisher, have described six new species of bizarre underground ants in the...

May 25, 2015 by News Staff

The panther chameleon, long thought to be a single species, is actually eleven distinct species, according to a team of biologists led by Prof Michel Milinkovitch...

May 13, 2015 by News Staff

Lemur females behave more like the males thanks to a little testosterone, says a group of biologists at Duke University in Durham, NC. Male and female...

Nov 17, 2014 by News Staff

An international team of scientists from Germany and France has described a new species of gecko that lives in a karstic limestone massif called Montagne...

Nov 5, 2014 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists led by Prof David Krause of Stony Brook University has discovered a groundhog-like animal that lived in what is now Madagascar...

Aug 19, 2014 by Sergio Prostak

A multinational team of scientists headed by Dr Goncalo Rosa of the University of Kent’s Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology has described...

Jun 23, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

Entomologists from the United States and Germany have described seven new species of giant pill-millipedes belonging to the Malagasy genus Sphaeromimus. Sphaeromimus...

May 23, 2014 by News Staff

The kiwi (Apteryx spp.), a national symbol of New Zealand, is most closely related to members of the family Aepyornithidae – enormous, flightless...

Feb 5, 2014 by News Staff

Paleontologists have described a new extinct genus and two fossil species of the bat family Myzopodidae from several fossilized jawbones and teeth discovered...

Dec 5, 2013 by News Staff

A new study published in the journal Madagascar Conservation and Development has shown the ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) are the world’s only...

Jul 29, 2013 by Natali Anderson

Biologists from Madagascar and Germany led by Dr Andreas Hapke of the Johannes Gutenberg University’s Institute of Anthropology have described a new,...

Apr 23, 2013 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified the first new species of dinosaur from the island of Madagascar in nearly a decade. Outline of Dahalokely tokana with a...

Mar 27, 2013 by Natali Anderson

An international team of genetic researchers has sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes (Daubentonia madagascariensis),...

Mar 26, 2013 by News Staff

Biologists led by Dr Peter Kappeler from the University of Göttingen in Germany have announced the identification of two new lemur species in the genus...

Mar 21, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers has found that most of Madagascar’s unique present-day fauna may originally have arrived across long distances...

Feb 15, 2012 by Natali Anderson

An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Frank Glaw of the Zoological State Collection of Munich in Germany, has discovered four new species of...