We’ve always thought aye-ayes looked like a little like horrendously malformed koalas. In fact, they’re actually lemurs — lemurs with the freakiest fingers we’ve ever seen. In this, the latest in Ze ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The world’s largest nocturnal primate—the aye-aye—is ...

Alright, let’s talk about the aye-aye, the creepiest critter you’ll ever meet from the wilds of Madagascar. This nocturnal lemur looks like it rolled straight out of a Tim Burton movie, with its buggy ...

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 ...

The night is dark and full of...lemurs? A rare aye-aye was born at Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina last month. The nocturnal creature native to Madagascar was named Melisandre, after the "Game of ...

The night is dark and full of...lemurs? A rare aye-aye was born at Duke Lemur Center in North Carolina last month. The nocturnal creature native to Madagascar was named Melisandre, after the "Game of ...

Aye-aye lemurs look a bit like gremlins, with pronounced, clawed middle fingers, and these primates’ hands have been fascinating scientists for years. New research shows that the little lemurs, ugly ...

A long-fingered lemur has been caught on camera picking its nose—and eating the slimy goods. The culprit was Kali, an aye-aye at the Duke Lemur Center who now has the dubious honor of being the first ...

The aye-aye looks like someone took a bat, a rat, and a gremlin and stuck them in a blender, then gave the result one incredibly long middle finger that it uses like a Swiss Army knife. This bizarre ...

Hiding in the weird creature’s palm was something that scientists had missed. By JoAnna Klein Madagascar’s aye-aye lemur is an endearing aberration of an animal. It has enormous ears, a bushy tail, ...