Hear the tale of an animal the Malagasy people associate with night spirits. Find out why mouse lemurs are at-risk in the only country they call home.

Before Madagascar, lemurs lived under the radar. Today, King Julien is a household name and some of us think about his silly quotes a little too often. Little did we know that lemurs are such amazing ...

This red ruffed lemur video explores the behavior, features, and natural abilities of these unique primates. The clip ...

Where do lemurs come from and what are their origins? The ancestors of the lemurs would have arrived from Africa to Madagascar by natural floating rafts 65 million years ago. Then they evolved and ...

On World Lemur Day, learn more about different types of Lemurs through Duke's Lemur Center (DLC) and how you can help. Duke is home to the largest and most diverse collection of lemurs outside of ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ironically, this is when they catch up on sleep. Then, they settle back into ...

What can lemurs tell us about inflammation and aging, aka "inflammaging" in humans? That's the question Elaine Guevara, a biological anthropologist who studies the evolution of life history and aging ...

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The lemurs in the study died of natural causes some time ago, but their tissues live on, thanks to a bank of tissues from these endangered primates kept frozen at the Duke Lemur Center. Using an ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- After swabbing the cheeks of more than 200 lemurs and related primates to collect their DNA, researchers at the Duke Institute for Genome Sciences & Policy (IGSP) and Duke Lemur Center ...

What if humans didn’t have to suffer the slow-burning fire of chronic inflammation as we age? A surprising study on two types of lemurs found no evidence of "inflammaging," a phenomenon long assumed ...

Researchers are investigating a sudden spike in pregnancies in one black-and-white ruffed lemur population that might signal environmental stress to the mammals A population of black-and-white ruffed ...