The island of Madagascar—one of the last large land masses colonized by humans—sits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of East Africa. While it’s still regarded as a place of unique ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar?s Ranobe forest, World Wildlife Fund said. Last year during a night survey monitoring ...

Scientists in Madagascar have discovered a population of greater bamboo lemurs (Prolemur simus), a critically endangered species of primate, in an area more than 400 kilometers away from its only ...

Seven new frog species discovered in Madagascar over the past year mark the latest additions to a growing inventory of frogs and other amphibian species that have evolved over the past 66 million ...

The Malagasy people of Madagascar are genetically fascinating. Despite the island's location just off the coast of Africa, it was only settled relatively recently -- a mere thousand years ago, ...