TOLIARA, Madagascar — Around 5,000 years ago, the island of Madagascar would have resembled a Sci-Fi novel. Strange, prickly forests, gorilla-sized lemurs, pygmy hippopotamuses, horned crocodile and ...

The subcontinent of Madagascar off southeastern Africa is hot spot of biodiversity, where plants and animals evolved differently than any place else in the world. When humans arrived some 2000 years ...

Some of Madagascar's ring-tailed lemurs head to bed in caves every night, new research finds. The study is the first evidence of modern wild primates sleeping regularly in caves. Subscribe to read ...

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After playing, feeding, and socializing in trees all day, some ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) take their nightly respite in caves, according to a new study in Madagascar Conservation and Development ...

A new study shows that human activity has been changing the planet way before the Industrial Revolution – particularly 1,000 years ago when human settlement permanently transformed the forests.

Millions of years of isolation from the African mainland have meant that Madagascar has a great variety of unique plants and animals. In fact, of the estimated 200,000 species that live on the island, ...