A tiny primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, has an amazing ability—it can slow down cellular aging while it ...

A new study from Duke University and the University of California, San Francisco, reveals that these lemurs can lengthen ...

LEMURS may hold the answer to reverse ageing, stunned scientists have claimed. The cute creatures have a mysterious secret ...

Dwarf lemurs, however, have a way to extend their telomeres. A study published in the journal Biology Letters suggests that ...

Mixodectes belonged to an extinct family known as mixodectids and lived during the Paleocene epoch. This geological epoch ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions of ...

When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs disappear into tree holes or underground burrows, where they spend up to seven months each year in a state of suspended animation. It’s a survival ...

Visitors can see Bindi and watch the lemurs jump through the trees, find out more about them at the ranger talk and feeding ...

There, at the top of the tree, is an Indri, which is the largest lemur in Madagascar. The reason it's thought that we find lemurs here in Madagascar, in Madagascar alone, is because there are no ...

Dwarf lemurs hide out in tree holes and underground burrows for a lengthy winter slumber. Their heart rates drop to less than eight beats per minute and only take a breath every ten minutes or so ...

Lemurs - those small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar, off the southeast coast of Africa - are an evolutionary mystery. When the first lemurs appeared tens of millions of years ...