Deep in the rainforest of Madagascar, a small, bright green creature hops along the forest floor. The little amphibian spends its days hiding from the bright sun and its nights hunting and calling for ...

In a joint project between RIT and the Seneca Park Zoo, several remote sensing modalities were exploited to assess the biodiversity of the Madagascar rainforest. With the ultimate goal of creating an ...

Scientists driving in the Madagascar rainforest spotted clusters of spiders and discovered a new species with “unique” behavior, study says. Photo from Matjaz Kuntner A team of researchers was driving ...

A study has found that, left unchecked, the combined effects of deforestation and human-induced climate change could eliminate Madagascar's entire eastern rainforest habitat by 2070, impacting ...

The island of Madagascar off the southeastern coast of Africa hosts at least 12,000 plant species and 700 vertebrate species, 80% to 90% of which are found nowhere else on Earth. Isolated for the last ...

Somewhere in the faraway Mozambique Channel, on Madagascar’s tiny, roadless, volcanic “Lemur Island,” a tawny-colored, wet-nosed, white-maned, utterly adorable lemur suddenly pounced from a tree in ...

Illegal logging has indirectly put other species at risk by removing their habitats and creating greater access for poachers. In Madagascar, more than 90% of all lemur species are now close to ...

Hiking through the dense rainforest of Madagascar, scientists heard a series of “otherworldly” sounds. The “somewhat bizarre” calls came from several “cute” creatures living near streams. They turned ...

Researchers provide predictive models that chart the likely effects of human-induced climate change and deforestation as individual and combined causes of habitat and species destruction. The ...