The giant Madagascar palm will be called Tahina spectabilis, which is Malagasy for blessed or to be protected. On the Indian Ocean island of Madagascar, botanists have discovered a new species of ...

Apart from their almost otherworldly stature, baobabs have another strange ... of these trees across the board and even ...

A n international team of researchers have discovered seven new species of tree frogs that make otherworldly calls in the ...

This is a wood-boring cerambycid beetle, similar to those that the aye-aye feeds on in Madagascar. The aye-aye mostly stays above ground, moving from tree to tree in search of its next meal.

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Madagascar hosts the highest percentage of plant species endemic to a single island, with 83% of its flora unique to the island. This high endemism is attributed ...