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.
By Orion Kornfeld with Karie Whitman and Matt Borths, Ph.D. Published in the 2022 Duke Lemur Center annual magazine. Read the original here. The Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History (DLCMNH) is the only fossil preparation lab at Duke University. “The fossils at the DLC teach us when, where, and how the ancestors of […]
Ren Collins, a summer intern with the DLC Museum of Natural History, traveled with the Duke fossil team to Wyoming in 2023. There, Ren captured drone footage of the badlands to tell the story of fossils from the field to the museum.
Walking with Lemurs tours are back, and they’re better than ever! If you’d like to reserve your Walking with Lemurs tour today, just CLICK HERE to see full details and register. One of the hallmarks of the DLC is our Natural Habitat Enclosures (NHEs), where for decades, lemurs have foraged, played, and snoozed in large […]
Belladonna’s Toxic Twins We’ve had a twin-tastic summer at the Duke Lemur Center! On July 14, 2024, first time gray mouse lemur mom Belladonna gave birth to twin girls: Rhubarb and Taro. You may remember Belladonna as one member of the “Toxic Trio,” a set of mouse lemur triplets born last summer to mom Fauna […]
Teazel’s Twins: Meet Artemisia and Sweet William Nocturnal baby season continues at the Duke Lemur Center! On May 31, 2024, five-year-old gray mouse lemur Teazel gave birth to twins. This is Teazel’s second time as a mother, after giving birth to singleton Lunaria in 2023. Teazel had one girl, Artemisia, and one boy, Sweet William, […]
