Written by Camille DeSisto, Ph.D. candidate at the Duke University Nicholas School of the Environment. Originally published in LEMURS Magazine: The “Where” Issue in February 2025. Ecologists study the relationships between living things, including humans, and their environment. By studying the complex ways that plants and animals are connected to each other and the world around […]
By Robin Smith, Ph.D. Originally published on the Duke Research Blog on April 21, 2025. Read the original here. If there was a contest for biggest female bullies of the animal world, lemurs would be near the top of the list. In these distant primate cousins, it’s the ladies who call the shots, relying on physical aggression […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
