Due to ongoing threats of disaster impacts, hunting and deforestation, lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals in the ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

We're all familiar with the outward signs of aging. The face that greets you in the mirror each morning may have sagging skin ...

Madagascar is also the only place in the entire world where lemurs, a group of primates, are naturally found. It's home to more than 100 species of lemurs. Due to ongoing threats of disaster ...

A tiny primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, has an amazing ability—it can slow down cellular aging while it ...

The ends of chromosomes, called telomeres, typically shorten as an organism ages. But when some fat-tail dwarf lemurs ...

It all happens during hibernation, said lead author Marina Blanco of Duke. When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs ...

Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate ... such that telomeres get shorter with age. But dwarf lemurs have a way of keeping their telomeres from shortening ...

Dwarf lemurs, however, have a way to extend their telomeres. A study published in the journal Biology Letters suggests that ...

A super rare baby 'dancing' lemur has been born at a British zoo to the delight of keepers. The tiny baby has arrived at ...

Consider the fat-tailed dwarf lemur of Madagascar. This hamster-sized primate can turn ... such that telomeres get shorter ...

A hamster-sized primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur is our closest ... recently studied the effects of hibernation and food deprivation in dwarf lemurs. Their findings, published in ...