The animals they recovered were a mixture of various types of lemurs – endemic to Madagascar – and tortoises. Authorities found species such as spider tortoises, radiated tortoises ...

The Madagascar heron, also known as Humblot’s heron, is a species of heron endemic to the north and west coasts of Madagascar. It is also natively present in the Comoro Islands and Mayotte. Due to a ...

An intact, fossilized specimen of the world’s largest egg—of any known species ever on Earth—entered the National Geographic ...

I was also surprised that most of these – about 44,000 species – were endemic to a single island only, such as Madagascar or New Guinea. These numbers were far higher than expected ...

Although Madagascar is very rich in biodiversity, it remains particularly vulnerable to the damage caused by global warming. This damage has a devastating impact on ecosystems and local communities.

Madagascar is one of the world's poorest ... known only from Masoala, and for many endemic bird species extremely rare in other parts of the island (for example, the serpent eagle, the red owl ...

Madagascar's wildlife is almost wholly unique to the island. You've probably heard of lemurs, but how about tenrecs? Vangas? Mesites? Have you ever seen a giraffe-necked weevil? An octopus tree?

Around 10,000 endangered tortoises were swept away by a cyclone in Madagascar. They were the same species of turtle that a Knoxville zoologist rescued in 2018.

I was also surprised that most of these—about 44,000 species—were endemic to a single island only, such as Madagascar or New Guinea. These numbers were far higher than expected, given that ...

The Madagascar heron, also known as Humblot’s heron, is a species of heron endemic to the north and west coasts of Madagascar. It is also natively present in the Comoro Islands and Mayotte.