An Illinois family made an unusual home discovery when they found an endangered ring-tailed lemur inside their garage. The surprising find began Wednesday night when a family in Bloomington, Illinois, ...

In 1960, a young David Attenborough helped capture the first-ever audio of Madagascar’s largest lemur, the indri. Using a battery-powered portable tape recorder, he played the sounds back to the ...

New research has discovered that lemurs, the small primates native to Madagascar, are capable of exaggerating their size thanks to the unique structure of their larynx. Published in the journal ...

An Illinois family made an unusual home discovery when they found an endangered ring-tailed lemur inside their garage. The surprising find began Wednesday night when a family in Bloomington, Illinois, ...

Lemurs are able to pretend to be much larger than they really are using only their voice, thanks to a special quirk of evolution, and scientists have discovered how they do it. These small primates, ...

Humans have rhythm. Well, not all humans. Some people are rhythm adjacent. At best. That’s not bad though. It’s enough to still put them ahead of every other mammal on the planet. Or at least it was.

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