By Matt Borths, Curator of the Duke Lemur Center’s Division of Fossil Primates. This week we joined Dr. Doug Boyer from Duke’s Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at the NC State College of Veterinary Medicine, where we CT-scanned a block that contains a 50-million-year-old lemur-like primate from Wyoming, USA. Part of the skull is visible and even […]
By Karl Bates. Originally published November 2007: https://today.duke.edu/2007/11/lemurs.html. Sarph lives. He’s nearly 15 years old, and he knows where the predators lurk, where to find food, and how to make a baby with his wild-born mate. Seven-year-old brothers Tany and Masoandro are there too, in the steep and steamy rainforest of the Betampona Reserve in northeastern […]
Attention serious lemur lovers and science enthusiasts: we have an amazing new educational series for you! Starting in 2019, we will be offering Wild Workshops throughout the year! Each Wild Workshop will focus on a different subject connected to the work the DLC does here and in Madagascar. We’ll do a deep-dive into subjects like […]
By Matt Borths, Curator of the Duke Lemur Center’s Division of Fossil Primates. Happy first #FossilFriday of 2019! Meet Paradracaena, a large lizard with snail-crushing teeth that lived alongside the earliest South American monkeys. The specimen was collected by Dr. Rich Kay (Duke University) and his excavation teams in Colombia. It was recently scanned so it is cataloged […]
