Nose picking might be thought of as a socially unacceptable behavior among humans but amazingly we are one of 12 species of primate to exhibit this habit. Today a new paper has revealed this behavior ...

Aye-ayes, the scraggly, bug-eyed, spindly-fingered lemurs of Madagascar, have historically been demonized by humans for their unusual and unappealing anatomy. But the species is going to have to get ...

The world’s most demonic lemur is also its most endangered. Meet the creature with the ugliest finger on the planet. At night, in the forests of Madagascar, a dark specter drifts through the canopy.

Get to know the Aye-Aye: Madagascar’s mysterious night primate. Learn its distinctive characteristics, behaviors, and why this unusual lemur is interesting to scientists and animal enthusiasts. The ...

When scientists caught the aye-aye on video using its strangely thin, eight-centimeter-long middle finger to deeply pick its nose, it pointed towards a larger mystery: why exactly do some animals eat ...

Research scientist Eleanor Sterling spent almost two years stumbling through the dark forests of Madagascar in an effort to better understand the aye-eye, perhaps one of the most endangered species on ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The aye-aye looks almost nothing like a primate. Most would ...

A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led scientists to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world's most rare and bizarre-looking primates. They have ...

With its spindly fingers and bat-like ears, the aye-aye already stands out from other lemurs. Now, researchers have found a bizarre feature that sets it apart from every other primate, too: a sixth ...

If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger ...