A team of scientists has created the first high resolution maps of remote forests in Madagascar. The effort, which is written up in the journal Carbon Balance and Management, will help more accurately ...

Caption This map of Madagascar show that the new species of sucker-footed bat, Myzopoda schliemanni, occurs only in the dry western forests of Madagascar, while the previously known species, Myzopoda ...

ALTHOUGH Madagascar is known to be the third largest island in the world, its actual size and extent is not very generally understood. It is easy to see how misconception on this point arises, for in ...

CHICAGO--An international team of scientists has developed an explanation for why Madagascar has such a wealth of animals found only on this island. Their findings will help sort out the evolutionary ...

Being separated from all other land masses since the late Cretaceous, when dinosaurs still dominated many parts of the Earth, Madagascar has long been referred to as a “natural laboratory of evolution ...