Originally published on Phys.org on March 11, 2025. Read the original here. We’re all familiar with the outward signs of aging. The face that greets you in the mirror each morning may have sagging skin or thinning hair. But many age-related changes start within our cells, even our DNA, which can wear and tear over […]
By Stephen Schramm, Working@Duke Senior Writer. Originally published in Duke Today on February 19, 2025. Read the original and see the accompanying photos here. Monthly open houses at the Duke Lemur Center Museum of Natural History offer glimpses of work behind evolutionary discoveries As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, […]
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN. Originally published on CNN Science on January 17, 2025. Read the original here. Learn more about the DLC’s collaborations with Egyptian paleontologists, including the study’s lead author Shorouq Al-Ashqar, on pages 44-47 of LEMURS Magazine: The “Where” Issue. An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went […]
By Andrew Rossi. Originally published in Cowboy State Daily on December 1, 2024. Scientists from the Duke Lemur Center at Duke University come out to Wyoming every summer to find fossils from the earliest ancestors of modern-day lemurs and primates. They say the Bridger Basin is the Madagascar of the Eocene Period. There are plenty […]
By Sally Bornbusch, Ph.D. and Sara Sorraia. Originally published in Duke Lemur Center Magazine in 2021. This fall, the Duke Lemur Center celebrates a transformational moment in its 55-year legacy of studying and caring for lemurs: the grand opening of the Anna Borruel Codina Center for Lemur Medicine and Research. Made possible thanks to an […]
By James Herrera, Ph.D. Published February 17, 2023 The Duke Lemur Center (DLC) at Duke University houses the most diverse population of lemurs outside of Madagascar. In Madagascar, the DLC has many conservation and research activities, including the DLC-SAVA Conservation project, a community-based approach to safeguarding biodiversity and human livelihoods in the northeast. In February […]
An aye-aye’s cancer diagnosis brings together veterinarians, doctors, and scientists from NC and around the world By Sally Bornbusch, Ph.D. Originally published in December 2021 in Issue 3 of the Duke Lemur Center’s annual magazine. On June 24, 2020, the DLC welcomed its eighth infant of the season: a rare baby aye-aye. Named “Winifred” after […]
In the summer and fall of 2021, the DLC shipped eight Coquerel’s sifakas to three European zoos, in an historic expansion of the Coquerel’s sifaka conservation breeding program—marking the beginning of a new chapter in lemur conservation. Read more on pages 42-43 of the Duke Lemur Center’s Annual Magazine. Story by Karl Leif Bates. Video […]
