undergone their own independent evolution on Madagascar, lemurs have diversified to fill many niches normally filled by other types of mammals. They include the...

Lemurs (/ˈliːmər/ LEE-mər; from Latin lemures lit. 'ghosts' or 'spirits') are wet-nosed primates of the superfamily Lemuroidea (/lɛmjʊˈrɔɪdiə/ lem-yuurr-OY-dee-ə)...

lemurs (Eulemur) and the other two genera: Lemur and Hapalemur. The ring-tailed lemur is thought to share closer affinities to the bamboo lemurs of the...

The mouse lemurs are nocturnal lemurs of the genus Microcebus. Like all lemurs, mouse lemurs are native to Madagascar. Mouse lemurs have a combined head...

species of lemur. It is arboreal, nocturnal and usually social. It get its name from the color of its body. Like several other mouse lemurs, like the brown...

on observations of recent lemuriform taxa, such as cheirogaleid lemurs (particularly fork-marked lemurs and the hairy-eared dwarf lemur) and galagos, which...

are most closely related to mouse lemurs within Cheirogaleidae, a family of small, nocturnal lemurs. Giant mouse lemurs sleep in nests during the day and...

Cheirogaleidae, complicating the picture of the early evolution of lemurs by suggesting that lemurs originated in Asia. Described from a few teeth, the specimen...

koala lemur, is an extinct genus of lemurs belonging to the family Megaladapidae, consisting of three species that once inhabited the island of Madagascar...

of lemurs, primate from Madagascar Lost city Legends of Mount Shasta Lemuria Mauritia Mu Phantom island Ramtha Theresa Bane (2014). Encyclopedia of Imaginary...

Subfossil lemurs are lemurs from Madagascar that are represented by recent (subfossil) remains dating from nearly 26,000 years ago to approximately 560 years...

"Shifting ranges and conservation challenges for lemurs in the face of climate change". Ecology and Evolution. 5 (6): 1131–1142. doi:10.1002/ece3.1418. ISSN 2045-7758...

ruffed lemurs of the genus Varecia are strepsirrhine primates and are the largest extant lemurs within the family Lemuridae. Like all living lemurs, they...

sloth lemurs (Palaeopropithecidae) comprise an extinct family of lemurs that includes four genera. The common name can be misleading, as members of Palaeopropithecidae...

lemurs, also known as brown lemurs, are the lemurs in genus Eulemur. They are medium-sized primates that live exclusively on Madagascar. The fur of the...

descriptions of redirect targets Timeline of human evolution Evolution of lemurs – History of primate evolution on Madagascar Evolution of sirenians –...

The monkey lemurs or baboon lemurs (Archaeolemuridae) are a recently extinct family of lemurs known from skeletal remains from sites on Madagascar dated...

allowed for greater radiation of mouse lemurs. The mouse lemurs split into three distinct clades. Goodman's mouse lemur has been grouped with five other...

which contains the mouse lemurs, dwarf lemurs, giant mouse lemurs, fork-marked lemurs, and hairy-eared dwarf lemur. The mouse lemur genus Microcebus includes...

Colugos (/kəˈluːɡoʊ/), flying lemurs, or cobegos (/kəˈbiːɡoʊ/), are arboreal gliding euarchontogliran mammals that are native to Southeast Asia. Their...

Evolution is the change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations. It occurs when evolutionary processes...

extant primate species, including the lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and to the anthropoids, which...

and other lemurs. They have sent multiple teams to capture lemurs in Madagascar and have since created captive breeding groups for their lemurs. Specifically...

characteristic "shi-fak" alarm call. Like all lemurs, they are found only on the island of Madagascar. All species of sifakas are threatened, ranging from endangered...

extinction, and faunal turnover in Madagascar, and their bearing on the evolution of lemurs". BMC Evolutionary Biology. 20 (1). doi:10.1186/s12862-020-01628-1...

Cairo, gave rise to all living species—lemurs of Madagascar, lorises of Southeast Asia, galagos or "bush babies" of Africa, and the anthropoids: platyrrhine...

of the Northern Hemisphere as the climate cooled. Adapiforms are sometimes referred to as being "lemur-like", although the diversity of both lemurs and...

performed. A significant number of fixed differences present in the lemurs in the Sahafary region distinguished them from the lemurs in other regions, suggesting...

flying lemur or Philippine colugo (Cynocephalus volans), known locally as kagwang, is one of two species of colugo or "flying lemurs". It is monotypic of its...

Convergent evolution is the independent evolution of similar features in species of different periods or epochs in time. Convergent evolution creates analogous...