Get to know the Aye-Aye: Madagascar’s mysterious night primate. Learn its distinctive characteristics, behaviors, and why this unusual lemur is interesting to scientists and animal enthusiasts. The ...

For more than a century after Europeans first encountered the mysterious aye-aye of Madagascar in the 1780s, scientists and biologists just could not figure out if the weird beast was a rodent or a ...

In this video, we take a closer look at the aye-aye, a mysterious nocturnal lemur from Madagascar that is often seen as a harbinger of death. With its long, thin fingers and large eyes, this unique ...

This video reveals how the aye aye became one of the most feared animals in Madagascar’s folklore. It explores the myths that claimed the creature could predict or even cause death. Viewers learn how ...

DENVER — The Denver Zoo is now home to a baby aye-aye, one of the rarest animals in the world. On Thursday morning, the zoo announced that it had welcomed its third aye-aye, which is an elusive ...

Aye-ayes are among the strangest primates on Earth, with their oversized ears, spider-like hands, and—as new research shows—a previously undetected sixth finger. Five fingers per hand tends to be the ...

Denver Zoo has welcomed one of the rarest animals in the world to its collection. But with her thin, gray hair; marble-like googly eyes; and skeletal claws, is Tonks the aye-aye lemur also one of the ...

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 ...

Adam Hartstone-Rose studies the muscles of forearms, which are surprisingly intricate and easily overlooked. The delicate movements of our hands, for example—like the ability to play a Mozart piano ...

We’re in week two of our Charismatic Creature Carnival, our celebration of six overlooked or unfairly maligned species that deserve a closer look. Our audience submitted our candidates, but only one ...

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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, ...