If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger ...

Humans aren't the only animals to pick their nose and eat the contents, a new study has shown. Researchers have for the first time documented the behavior in a primate known as the aye-aye, a most ...

The world's weirdest little primate has gotten even weirder, thanks to the discovery of a tiny extra digit. A study led by researchers from North Carolina State University has found that aye-ayes ...

There's a little extra thumb-thing on the hand of the aye-aye, a strange-looking nocturnal lemur native to Madagascar. Tucked near each wrist is a small nub of bone and cartilage that's like a ...

The aye-aye may be one of the most interesting and misunderstood primates. With its odd looks, it has haunted villagers for centuries in its native Madagascar. While initially believed to be a ...

Back in 2022, we briefly mentioned that an aye-aye had been caught on film "digging for gold," i.e., practicing rhinotillexis, or, in other words, picking its nose. However, somehow, we failed to ...

Adam Hartstone-Rose studies the muscles of forearms, which are surprisingly intricate and easily overlooked. The delicate movements of our hands, for example—like the ability to play a Mozart piano ...

Aye-ayes are a species of Madagascan lemur. (David Haring/Duke Lemur Center) Unusual animals called aye-ayes, a species of Madagascan lemur, could have scampered fully formed from Edgar Allan Poe’s ...

We recently introduced you to the aye-aye (Daubentonia madagascariensis), a nocturnal lemur who consistently tops the charts as one of the world’s weirdest animals (they even grace the cover of the ...

Aye-ayes, the scraggly, bug-eyed, spindly-fingered lemurs of Madagascar, have historically been demonized by humans for their unusual and unappealing anatomy. But the species is going to have to get ...

The world's weirdest little primate has gotten even weirder, thanks to the discovery of a tiny extra digit. Aye-ayes possess small 'pseudothumbs' -- complete with their own fingerprints --- that may ...