Aye-ayes are among the strangest primates on Earth, with their oversized ears, spider-like hands, and—as new research shows—a previously undetected sixth finger. Five fingers per hand tends to be the ...

Aye-ayes just got even more unusual. The tiny lemurs of Madagascar, known for their large cartoonish ears and continuously growing incisor teeth, also have a sixth “finger” on each hand. The extra ...

A new study in aye-ayes is the first to review nose picking in primates and reports the first evidence of the habit in lemurs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

While picking one's nose may seem a gruesome and socially unacceptable habit to us, it is a different story in the animal kingdom. A new study reveals that aye-ayes - a long-fingered species of lemur ...

Native to Madagascar, this lemur looks like a strange mix of several animals. It has the round eyes of an owl, the ears of a bat, rodent-like teeth that never stop growing and a wiry, bushy tail ...

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For the first time, the complete genomes of three separate populations of aye-ayes -- a type of lemur -- have been sequenced and analyzed in an effort to characterize patterns of genetic diversity and ...