Walking through a darkened forest near a hotel in Madagascar, scientists swept their flashlights across the trail. The beam landed on a tiny, color-changing creature. It turned out to be a new ...

Hibernating dwarf lemurs can stay in this cold, standby state for about a week before they have to briefly warm up, and ...

with 59 different species existing nowhere outside of Madagascar. Beyond their uniqueness to the island, chameleons are unique creatures in their own right. Known for their ability to change color ...

As night fell across a forest in Madagascar, a “cryptic” creature perched on the tip of a twig and went to sleep. It almost seemed to blend in with the branch — but not well enough.

One of the many extraordinary facts about Madagascar is that it bears virtually no dangerous animals. Save for the Nile crocodile (see Close Calls with Crocs), all of Africa's big beasts are ...

Having broken away from the rest of the continent some 165 million years ago, Madagascar is famed for its rich biodiversity and host of cast away creatures. Evolving in isolation from the rest of ...

This insect looks—and sounds—like anything but a run-of-the-mill roach. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are one of many fascinating animal species to hail from the island of Madagascar.

In Madagascar’s Tsingy de Bemaraha National ... Here are three of our most recent eye-catching stories. →2-foot-long creature with 'secretive' lifestyle found in Vietnam.

There are no showtimes for this date. A documentary that follows Dr. Patricia C. Wright's mission to help lemurs, the highly evolved creatures who arrived on Madagascar millions of years ago as ...

Once they become cloistered in refuges, animals and plants often become increasingly distinct from even their close relatives. Madagascar itself epitomizes this process, so unusual and removed are ...

STEVE BACKSHALL: This is Madagascar. It’s a vast island in the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Africa. And it’s home to some of the most unique and rare creatures on the planet. Incredibly ...