Happy World Lemur Day 2024! If you loved our Which DLC Lemur Are You? quiz from last year’s World Lemur Day, you’ll be happy to know that we’ve made a sequel! All new decisions, all new lemurs—with some returning favorites. Click here or take the quiz below. You can help provide enrichment to our lemurs […]
In the summer of 2024, Duke undergraduate Erika Kraabel traveled to Madagascar to help the DLC Museum of Natural History team collect lemur bones at Bezà Mahafaly Special Reserve, a longstanding research site in southwestern Madagascar. “At the DLC Museum, I’ve been learning the foundations of fossil preparation and have been involved in rehousing the […]
An important part of the Duke Lemur Center’s mission is to inspire and train the next generation of scientists and environmental stewards. To do that, the DLC offers as many opportunities as possible for students to work side-by-side withe the Lemur Center’s researchers, science educators, animal care and veterinary staff, and conservationists. Here, Duke Evolutionary […]
A digital scan reveals the fossil skeleton of Metacheiromys, an extinct mammal from the early to middle Eocene, trapped inside a slab of rock. This specimen was discovered in Wyoming by the Duke fossil team.
