Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

LEMURS may hold the answer to reverse ageing, stunned scientists have claimed. The cute creatures have a mysterious secret enabling them to turn back the clock on cellular ageing. And it may ...

The lemurs that we know today are small with big eyes and live in trees. More than 100 species live in Madagascar, and they all have high levels of genetic diversity. Yet, 90 percent of them are ...

A tiny primate from Madagascar, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, has an amazing ability—it can slow down cellular aging while it ...

Dwarf lemurs, however, have a way to extend their telomeres. A study published in the journal Biology Letters suggests that ...

It all happens during hibernation, said lead author Marina Blanco of Duke. When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs ...

A new study from Duke University and the University of California, San Francisco, reveals that these lemurs can lengthen ...

There, at the top of the tree, is an Indri, which is the largest lemur in Madagascar. The reason it's thought that we find lemurs here in Madagascar, in Madagascar alone, is because there are no ...

Dwarf lemurs hide out in tree holes and underground burrows for a lengthy winter slumber. Their heart rates drop to less than eight beats per minute and only take a breath every ten minutes or so ...

When winter sets in in the wild, dwarf lemurs disappear into tree holes or underground burrows, where they spend up to seven months each year in a state of suspended animation. It's a survival ...