The aye-aye may have a startling appearance to some, but the creature, once thought to be a rodent, is not menacing at all.

Nearly 90 percent of its flora and fauna are found nowhere else on the planet. But economically Madagascar is one of the poorest countries; many inhabitants live on less than $2 a day.

Animals higher on the food chain tend to have tissues enriched in heavier 15N, as opposed to 14N. The stable isotopes revealed a mixture of overlapping and non-overlapping niches between the ...

Madagascar appears to have been an island for at least 120 million years, and its animal population began arriving much later, sometime after 65 million years ago.

I don’t have it today, but maybe tomorrow. Mora, mora.” Madagascar has more than 300 species of reptiles — most endemic — so it’s easy to spot weird scaly creatures. (Photo by Norma Meyer) ...