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 ...

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 ...

With stones rising 220 feet from the ground, Tsingy de Bemaraha Strict Nature Reserve in Madagascar casts a landscape unlike any other. Composed of large limestone structures, the stone forest was ...

Madagascar forest destruction is wiping out humans’ tiniest relative By Reuters Published Sep. 6, 2019, 2:12 p.m. ET ...

Compared to our distant primate relatives, people haven’t occupied Madagascar for very long. The ancestors of today’s lemurs are thought to have arrived by rafting from mainland Africa around ...

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.

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 ...

KIRINDY FOREST, Madagascar (Reuters) - As a shocked world watches fires ravage the Amazon, slash-and-burn farmers are wreaking proportionally worse destruction half a world away in Madagascar ...

There's a crazy landform in Madagascar called a tsingy, which, euphemistically translated from Malagasy, means "where one cannot walk barefoot." It's basically a treacherous forest of limestone ...