Madagascar has been isolated from mainland Africa and Asia for more than 80 million years and has developed a distinctive flora and fauna, with more than 90% of its species endemic to the island ...

The biological narrative of Madagascar is a 180-million-year history of isolation and evolutionary divergence. Once a part of the Gondwana supercontinent, it broke away from Africa and later split ...

Tens of millions of years ago, a tiny primate boarded an unlikely vessel and ended up stranded on one of Earth's most ...

Later this week Dreamworks releases Madagascar, an animated film depicting a group of zoo escapees who visit the island by the same name off the eastern coast of southern Africa. While the film takes ...

Researchers have long known that islands are hotspots for species diversity. But, until recently, there weren't precise figures to quantify the diversity of plant life on islands. A study involving an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Marimbona River in eastern Madagascar is a major waterway that channels vast amounts of runoff from the island's humid eastern ...

Madagascar, the fourth-largest island in the world, is slightly smaller than the state of Texas. Surrounded by the Indian Ocean (and the Mozambique Channel on its western border), her closest neighbor ...

Mongabay.com today announced the official launch of WildMadagascar.org, an information site on the island country of Madagascar. The site features more than 3000 photos from across Madagsacar in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A biologist by training, I ask a lot of questions — so many that I’ve been compared to Frank Columbo, the 1970s TV detective whose tag line was, “Just one more thing . . .” My inquisitiveness, however ...