Instead, the island’s breathtaking landscape took form through two massive tectonic rifts that happened tens of millions of ...

The spiny-tailed iguanas of Clarion Island predate human presence in the Americas by tens of thousands of years, researchers ...

Researchers are investigating a sudden spike in pregnancies in one black-and-white ruffed lemur population that might signal ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy. Despite being more likely to ...

A new study led by the University of Oxford has revealed that reptiles confined to islands are facing a double jeopardy.

Madagascar’s cliffs, rolling plateaus, and winding rivers weren’t shaped by a single violent event. Instead, the island’s breathtaking landscape took form through two massive tectonic rifts that ...

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Madagascar's landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island's dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its ...

Madagascar’s landscape tells a story of deep time: ancient rifting and geological tilting sculpted the island’s dramatic topography and steered its rivers, setting the stage for the evolution of its ...

High-speed video helped researchers to get close-ups of the attack strategies of three snake families. By Ari Daniel Venomous snakes inhabit a different perceptual world than we do. “Before the mammal ...

Madagascar's young population, averaging just 19, faces a litany of problems that are largely the result of mismanagement by a succession of older men.

In a 4x4 bumping and rattling along a dirt road in Madagascar, Nomentsoa Randria­mamonjy explains a local idiom. A few generations ago, the phrase “when the eastern forest disappears” was Madagascar’s ...