Lemurs are a unique group of primates native to Madagascar ... All lemur species apart from aye-ayes have a tooth comb — six teeth fused together at the front of their lower jaw to groom ...

“You have to go literally to the other side of the planet to study them in the field,” Yamashita said of the small primates native ... and workings of the lemur teeth and jaws, and the ...

Like many primates, lemurs are prone to ticks and other parasites. In addition to grooming each other, this group has developed a more ingenious means of keeping pests at bay: self-medication.

Holding the caramel-colored skull of a once-captive sifaka, a lemur ... their teeth helps Canington, a PhD candidate in the Johns Hopkins Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, glean insights ...

An early primate’s famous fossil shares more in common with modern lemurs based on how its teeth erupted, according to new model developed at University of Toronto Scarborough. The model ...

There are more than 20 species of mouse lemurs, and several have been identified only in recent years. This is a rarity in primate research, and illustrates just how much remains to be known about ...

Lemurs are easy to love. They're cute, charismatic, and oddly humanlike. Lemurs are primates like us ... for animals with such sharp claws and teeth. And, luckily for ring-tailed lemurs, they ...

What do you know about lemurs? I did not know much before I went to Madagascar earlier this year, just that they are somehow related to monkeys, and that some of them have huge round eyes.

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nicknamed "flying lemurs." While the human species is unquestionably a member of the Primate group, the identity of the next closest group to primates within the entire class of living mammals has ...

Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs ... “These extinct lemurs are so different to those alive today. They also show fascinating similarities to monkeys and apes, including humans,” he says.