News articles tagged with 'lemur'
UF research provides new understanding of bizarre extinct mammal
— 12 Oct 2010 09:31 | Geology and palaeontologyUniversity of Florida researchers presenting new fossil evidence of an exceptionally well-preserved 55-million-year-old North American mammal have found it shares a common ancestor…
Hormonal birth control alters scent communication in primates
— 28 Jul 2010 11:21 | BiologyHormonal contraceptives change the ways captive ring-tailed lemurs relate to one another both socially and sexually, according to a Duke University study that combined analyses of hormones,…
A rainforest revelation
— 8 Jun 2010 14:00 | EnvironmentGlobal warming may present a threat to animal and plant life even in biodiversity hot spots once thought less likely to suffer from climate change, according to a new study from Rice…
Rosewood trees face extinction amid Madagascar's chaos
— 28 May 2010 12:27 | EnvironmentPolitical and social chaos and a lack of international protections have put several species of rosewood trees in Madagascar in danger of becoming extinct from illegal logging, according…
Scent signals stop incest in lemurs
— 3 Dec 2009 09:46 | BiologyChemical identifiers secreted from the genital glands of lemurs, allow them to avoid incest and also to engage in nepotism. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary…
Why are male and female lemurs the same size?
— 15 Jul 2009 01:47 | BiologyWhen it comes to investigating mysteries, Sherlock Holmes has nothing on Rice University biologist Amy Dunham. In a newly published paper, Dunham offers a new theory for one of primatology's…
Genomic fossils in lemurs shed light on origin and evolution of HIV and other primate lentiviruses
— 22 Mar 2009 16:00 | BiologyA retrovirus related to HIV became stably integrated into the genome of several lemurs around 4.2 million years ago, according to research led by Dr Cedric Feschotte at the University…
Discovery of virus in lemur could shed light on AIDS
— 2 Dec 2008 14:08 | HealthThe genome of a squirrel-sized, saucer-eyed lemur from Madagascar may help scientists understand how HIV-like viruses coevolved with primates, according to new research from the Stanford…
Anthropologist assembles and copies skeleton of extinct lemur
— 16 Nov 2008 14:44 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists in Madagascar, at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and the Vienna Natural History Museum and at the University of Massachusetts Amherst now have a nearly…
Scientists use CT technology to virtually reconstruct Hadropithecus skull
— 29 Jul 2008 12:46 | Geology and palaeontologyFossils recovered in a remote cave in the Southeast corner of Madagascar by William L. Jungers, Ph.D., a paleoanthropologist at Stony Brook University Medical Centre, and his colleagues…