Much is new at Philadelphia Zoo this summer, including a unique way to see a group of endangered primates. America's first zoo has updated its Lemur Island exhibit to allow guests to venture inside of ...

Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a new study has found. Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes. Now I have ...

Tree-dwelling species of monkeys and lemurs are spending increasing amounts of time on the forest floor as they seek refuge from rising temperatures. Scientists say the shift from arboreal lifestyles ...

Philadelphia Zoo has a lot going on. The zoo is celebrating a new Lemur Island walk-through experience, the arrival of a species that has been absent for almost 100 years and the births of several ...

Mike Marazzi said his job attracts a “passionate” kind of person. It’s a necessary quality for someone who needs to find common ground with colleagues who often don’t come from the same background, ...

Tucked away at Broad Street, north of East Campus, is a museum holding a new exhibit of fossils designed to teach us about how lemurs and humans evolved. The small Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural ...

Thousands of threatened lemurs are killed by specialist hunters every year to feed a lucrative urban market for their meat in cities across Madagascar. While rural subsistence hunting is seasonal and ...

Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study has found. Lead author Dr Ian Towle, of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute ...