The human-driven extinction of fruit-eating lemurs on Madagascar has created multiple "orphan" plant species with precarious futures because their primary seed dispersers are gone, scientists say. The ...

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in ...

A plant traditionally used by healers in Madagascar may offer a new way to treat malaria, a mosquito-borne illness that kills 2-3 million people — mostly children in Sub-Saharan Africa — per year.

The spigot for plant discoveries in Madagascar continues to flow steadily, with no signs of slowing down in the near future. "The number of new plant species from Madagascar continues to be amazingly ...