When you think of biodiversity, what comes to mind first? Perhaps you imagine the lush tropical rainforests of the Amazon or ...

Lemurs that survive only in Madagascar, snakes that hunt with and solitary Indian rhinos. These are just some of the rare ...

Thailand is sending almost 1,000 highly endangered tortoises and lemurs home to Madagascar in a landmark victory against animal trafficking, with the first batch on its way on Saturday.

How the climate crisis and aid cuts could devastate global supplies of vanilla - IN FOCUS: Vanilla farmers in Madagascar, a ...

But there once was an even bigger bird, which roamed Madagascar before dying out roughly 1,000 years ago: the elephant bird. Scientists don't know much about these massive birds.

Madagascar received $8.8 million for carbon credits from reducing 1.76 million tons of carbon emissions in 2020, becoming the third country in Africa (after Mozambique and Ghana) to be paid by the ...

Feb. 1 (UPI) --The body of the nano-chameleon, a new species discovered in Madagascar, measures just over a half-inch in length -- with its tail, the male chameleon measures just less than an inch ...

Madagascar saw a relatively recent mass extinction event about 1,000 years ago, when gorilla-sized lemurs, towering elephant birds, and grand tortoises were all wiped out from the island. A ...

Madagascar is home to many unique species, including a variety of lemurs. But there’s one species living in the island’s forests that scientists hadn’t quite been able to figure out until ...