Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lemurs have a “built-in” toothcomb that helps the animal groom themselves and each other. Their secondary tongue, or “sublingua,” ...

In the recesses of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., Stephanie Canington is giving a dead lemur a tooth exam. Holding the caramel-colored skull of a once-captive ...

Out of the mouths of lemurs come many answers to old mysteries about Madagascar's unique fauna. What were their origins, and how and why did they move around? New research by UC quaternary ...

Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a new study has found. Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the ...

Did you know that ring-tailed lemurs get cavities and other types of dental disease common to humans? Did you know that ring-tailed lemurs have a total of 36 adult teeth in their mouths? Humans have ...

Did you know that one type of lemur, the Aye-Aye, has teeth that looks more like a giant beaver than a primate? Did you know that ring-tailed lemurs eat many different foods, including leaves, fruits, ...

Using an unusually well-preserved subfossil jawbone, a team of researchers has sequenced for the first time the nuclear genome of the koala lemur (Megaladapis edwardsi), one of the largest of the 17 ...

Ring-tailed lemurs belong to the family Lemuridae, which is one of five lemur families. It is the only member of the genus Lemur. There are over 100 kinds of lemurs and new species continue to be ...

At the Duke Lemur Center, an innovative plan to keep the animals social late in life: pair them with lemurs of another species. By Sabrina Imbler Over the course of her 32 years, Cheyenne the ...

Lemurs are known for their social grooming, but their best grooming tool is their tongue. Below their main tongue lies the sublingua—a stiff, secondary “tongue” used specifically to clean their ...

Analysis of teeth of extinct lemurs has revealed fascinating clues to the evolution of humans, a University of Otago study has found. Lead author Dr Ian Towle, of the Sir John Walsh Research Institute ...

Lemurs have a “built-in” toothcomb that helps the animal groom themselves and each other. Their secondary tongue, or “sublingua,” thoroughly cleans their toothcomb. These primates engage in ...