Just a few thousand years ago, Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs.

A giant dark-brown millipede, not documented for 126 years, has been recorded in Makira Natural Park, home to the largest and most intact forest in Madagascar.

The remote island was once crawling with giant Subfossil lemurs, 10 foot-tall elephant birds, and giant tortoises.

While it's still regarded as a place of unique biodiversity, Madagascar long ago lost all its large-bodied vertebrates, including giant lemurs, elephant birds, turtles, and hippopotami.

A new population of rare giant mouse lemurs was discovered in southwestern Madagascar’s Ranobe forest, WWF said. Last year during a night survey monitoring biodiversity along the gallery forest of ...

Using DNA extracted from the remains of extinct giant lemurs like this sloth lemur (genus Palaeopropithecus), researchers aim to better understand why Madagascar's largest lemurs were wiped out ...

Reptiles, amphibians, and mammals from mainland Africa would have been stranded on giant rafts of vegetation and floated to Madagascar, where they eventually evolved into the wildlife we know today.

After humans settled on the island 2500 years ago, Madagascar experienced many extinctions, including giant lemurs, elephant birds and dwarf hippos.

So it was only natural when Fellman returned as writer-director for another documentary about wildlife in peril, “Island of Lemurs: Madagascar,” they brought back both Freeman and Douglas, who ...

Is it possible that monsters that populate our legends were influenced by the fossil record?