With rodent teeth, bat-like ears and a woodpecker-inspired hunting strategy, this primate may just be one of evolution’s ...

The aye-aye looks like someone took a bat, a rat, and a gremlin and stuck them in a blender, then gave the result one incredibly long middle finger that it uses like a Swiss Army knife. This bizarre ...

There are those among us who would go just about anywhere and do just about anything for hidden treasure. Stories of treasure hunters both real and fictional populate our history books and television ...

The aye-aye is one of nature's most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique features that set it apart. It has ...

If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger ...

Aye-ayes are among the strangest primates on Earth, with their oversized ears, spider-like hands, and—as new research shows—a previously undetected sixth finger. Five fingers per hand tends to be the ...

Oct. 21 (UPI) --The aye-aye, the world's weirdest primate, boasts 12 fingers, six on each paw, according to a study. A team of researchers, led by scientists at North Carolina State University, found ...

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Aye-ayes are a species of Madagascan lemur. (David Haring/Duke Lemur Center) Unusual animals called aye-ayes, a species of Madagascan lemur, could have scampered fully formed from Edgar Allan Poe’s ...

The aye-aye is one of nature’s most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique features that set it apart. It has ...