Mouse lemurs are tiny — they weigh as much as a golf ball if the ball had giant eyes and a fluffy tail. But because they are genetically similar to humans, mouse lemurs may provide researchers at the ...

In some parts of the world, animals are going extinct before scientists can even name them. Such may be the case for mouse lemurs, the saucer-eyed, teacup-sized primates native to the African island ...

Something to Google today: mouse lemurs. They weigh only about 50g and have big brown eyes. You may think you're looking at a very cute rodent. You're not. Despite their name, mouse lemurs are ...

A North Carolina research center is in for double the fun — three times over. Three sets of twin gray mouse lemurs made their debut at the Duke Lemur Center this summer, officials announced in a ...

HHMI Investigator Mark Krasnow and his colleagues conducted extensive phenotyping of hundreds of mouse lemurs, screening for anatomical and medical differences that could help locate the origins of ...

If you've ever watched a nature documentary featuring lemurs — or the animated feature "Madagascar," with characters King Julien, Maurice and Mort — you have probably fallen in love with the ...

Lemurs are among Madagascar’s signature animals. Lemurs first arrived on the island of Madagascar 53.2 million years ago, probably hitching a ride on a vegetation raft from mainland Africa. The island ...

Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, ...

If you’ve ever watched the movie “Madagascar” then you know that the character Mort is a ridiculously cute, large-eyed, little creature. Mort was modeled after a real life animal on the island that’s ...

These nocturnal creatures welcomed three sets of twins at the Duke Lemur Center in Durham, officials said. Screengrab from the Duke Lemur Center's Facebook page A North Carolina research center is in ...