Aye-ayes are true champions of nose picking. A new video offers the first evidence that these nocturnal lemurs of Madagascar stick their fingers up their noses and lick off the mucus. They don’t use ...

The aye-aye, a species of lemur living in Madagascar, is the largest nocturnal primate. Physically, they have large, gremlin-like eyes; a long, shaggy coat of dark hair with white-tips; a pale face; ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Meet Melisandre, a baby lemur born at the Duke Lemur Center who is one of only 25 of her kind in the U.S. "Mel" is a rare baby aye-aye, a long-fingered lemur. She's the child of ...

Humans aren't the only animals to pick their nose and eat the contents, a new study has shown. Researchers have for the first time documented the behavior in a primate known as the aye-aye, a most ...

Aye-aye lemurs look a bit like gremlins, with pronounced, clawed middle fingers, and these primates’ hands have been fascinating scientists for years. New research shows that the little lemurs, ugly ...

A quest to gain a more complete picture of color vision evolution has led Biodesign Institute researcher Brian Verrelli to an up-close, genetic encounter with one of the world’s most rare and ...

This aye-aye is not picking its nose, at least at the moment. Sylvain CORDIER / Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Scientists have captured a video of an aye-aye, a kind of primate, picking its nose in a ...

Monkeys are one of the most varied types of creatures in the world. In fact, some species are so extraordinary that they can never fail to amaze you because of their amazing physical characteristics ...

Adam Hartstone-Rose studies the muscles of forearms, which are surprisingly intricate and easily overlooked. The delicate movements of our hands, for example—like the ability to play a Mozart piano ...

Unusual animals called aye-ayes, a species of Madagascan lemur, could have scampered fully formed from Edgar Allan Poe’s forehead. Aye-ayes are primates, like humans and monkeys, but they display a ...

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Researchers have ...