The nocturnal Aye-Aye lemur, native to Madagascar, possesses a uniquely thin and elongated middle finger crucial for its survival. This remarkable adaptation allows the Aye-Aye to locate wood-boring ...

There's a little extra thumb-thing on the hand of the aye-aye, a strange-looking nocturnal lemur native to Madagascar. Tucked near each wrist is a small nub of bone and cartilage that's like a ...

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The aye-aye looks like someone took a bat, a rat, and a gremlin and stuck them in a blender, then gave the result one incredibly long middle finger that it uses like a Swiss Army knife. This bizarre ...

It's rough being an endangered aye-aye lemur: It takes 2 to 3 hours to copulate, and if you don't have a good teacher, you may never procreate at all. A pair of the nocturnal creatures from Madagascar ...

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 ...

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 aye-aye — a bizarre, nocturnal lemur that taps on trees with its fingers to find its insect prey — was the first of its family to branch off from the rest of the lemur line some 66 million years ...

The zoo captured the first glimpse of the baby aye-aye lemur after it was born nearly two months ago. It had been kept out of sight by its mother until now. Five-year-old Tahiry gave birth to the ...