You've probably never seen an aye-aye. And you may never want to see one. It's a bizarre, ugly-looking creature—sort of a cross between a wolverine, a koala, and a raccoon with big ears ...

Look, not all babies are cute. Unfortunately for the latest baby critter born at the Denver Zoo, Tonks the aye-aye is simply one of those less fortunate in the beauty department. Her beady little ...

Tonks, the baby aye-aye whose introduction to the world began with the words ‘ugly’ and ‘omen of evil,’ is ready for her public debut. The young lemur has started to emerge from her nest ...

Aye-ayes have several unusual traits ... people didn't want to eat the fish because it was so ugly. Chefs eventually realized that its looks were deceiving, and now it shows up on the menus ...

The aye-aye is a nocturnal lemur native to Madagascar ... PR campaigns on behalf of the ugly, the scary, the potentially dangerous, and the invasive can work. And they need to work, not just ...

How weird can a newborn look and still, somehow, be cute? Tonks the baby aye-aye may answer that question. Born at the Denver Zoo on Aug. 8, Tonks is one of only 24 of the nocturnal lemurs in ...

Aye-aye lemurs look a bit like gremlins ... New research shows that the little lemurs, ugly enough to rouse superstitions in their home range in Madagascar, sport an extra tiny thumb complete ...

Researchers explored the possibility of raising public interest in conserving this curiously ugly monkey through spreading ... it is in fact humans who threaten the aye aye’s continued existence.

Ugly animals deserve to be saved ... that’s disappearing from the steppes of Eurasia. The aye-aye—a medium-sized lemur that the locals in Madagascar kill simply because they find them so ...

In other words, fawning over what most would say is an ugly animal is "a playful way" of embracing something outside the norm, according to Aragon. Her example? Madagascar’s aye-aye, a nocturnal ...

The aye-aye is a species of strepsirrhine primate closely related to lemurs and the largest nocturnal primate in the world. In folklore they have received an ugly and undeserved reputation as ...