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Meet Duke’s Fossil Finders

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, […]



Why Duke University’s Lemur Center Travels To Wyoming Every Summer

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 […]



STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Field Research in Madagascar

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 […]



The DLC Celebrates World Lemur Day 2021

On October 29, 2021, the Duke Lemur Center celebrated World Lemur Day. Couldn’t join us live? Catch up on all of the action right here! A visit to Madagascar Our global lemur celebration started in Madagascar with DLC-SAVA Education Specialist Evrard Benasoavina. He took us on a live nature walk with school children from Ambatofisaka […]