DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- Meet Melisandre, a baby lemur born at the Duke Lemur Center who is one of only 25 of her kind in the U.S. "Mel" is a rare baby aye-aye, a long-fingered lemur. She's the child of ...

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DENVER — The Denver Zoo is now home to a baby aye-aye, one of the rarest animals in the world. On Thursday morning, the zoo announced that it had welcomed its third aye-aye, which is an elusive ...

Denver Zoo has welcomed one of the rarest animals in the world to its collection. But with her thin, gray hair; marble-like googly eyes; and skeletal claws, is Tonks the aye-aye lemur also one of the ...

Aye-aye lemurs look a bit like gremlins, with pronounced, clawed middle fingers, and these primates’ hands have been fascinating scientists for years. New research shows that the little lemurs, ugly ...

In the words of Melisandre, “The night is dark and full of terrors” — or, in this case, lemurs. Much like her namesake, a rare “creature of the night” was born in North Carolina at the Duke Lemur ...

Get to know the Aye-Aye: Madagascar’s mysterious night primate. Learn its distinctive characteristics, behaviors, and why this unusual lemur is interesting to scientists and animal enthusiasts. The ...

London Zoo keepers have captured striking photographs of their most "superstition-shrouded" nocturnal residents with a night-vision technique. Capturing the wide-eyed stare of the bushbaby and the aye ...

Research scientist Eleanor Sterling spent almost two years stumbling through the dark forests of Madagascar in an effort to better understand the aye-eye, perhaps one of the most endangered species on ...

We’ve always thought aye-ayes looked like a little like horrendously malformed koalas. In fact, they’re actually lemurs — lemurs with the freakiest fingers we’ve ever seen. In this, the latest in Ze ...

Colton may be the next Bachelor, but it's Tonks who is stealing hearts Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013. Her work has previously appeared on MTV, ...

The Denver Zoo recently welcomed one of the rarest and hardest-to-see animals in the world — a baby aye-aye named Tonks. Tonks was born to mother Bellatrix and father Smeagol on Aug. 8, but it was a ...