Although many creatures have yet to be documented, it's estimated that about 85 percent of species are endemic to Madagascar, while 47 percent are locally endemic to the specific area.

This story appears in the November 2009 issue of National Geographic magazine. The lizard moved in frightened rhythms across the sun-blasted stone. A few quick steps, a turn of its boxy head. Then ...

Take a flight of discovery high above the unique and otherworldly landscapes of Tsingy de Bemaraha National Park in Madagascar. This drone footage showcases the park's striking limestone ...

Madagascar, 250 miles off the coast of Mozambique, is about the size of France. It covers just 0.4 percent of the planet’s terrestrial landmass, yet it contains fully 5 percent of its ...

Between 1996 and 2006, Tsaratanana lost only about 0.1 % of its forest cover to deforestation per year; things got worse from 2006 to 2016, when the level of deforestation increased to about 0.5 % ...

The conservation questions surrounding these new data are complex and require thoughtful conversation to understand the whole story of Madagascar’s “forest cats”." When it comes to endemic terrestrial ...

But penitentes and stone forests are actually quite different in terms of the mechanisms involved in their formation. "I think the similarities are pretty superficial," said Ristroph.