This insect looks—and sounds—like anything but a run-of-the-mill roach. Madagascar hissing cockroaches are one of many fascinating animal species to hail from the island of Madagascar.

Madagascar, an island roughly the size of France, is home to about 9% of all the world's frog species. "We've only scratched the surface of what Madagascar's rainforests have to offer.

The Earth is home to some amazing animals, and many of them are well-known. Everybody knows how quick cheetahs are, how big ...

Researchers have discovered seven new species of tree frogs that make otherworldly calls in the rainforests of Madagascar. Their strange, high-pitched whistling calls sound more like sound effects ...

Standing up to 30 metres tall, Madagascar's giant baobab trees have towered over the island for thousands of years – but as the large animals that used to spread their seeds have died out ...

A spectral tarsier (Tarsius tarsier) feeding on a grasshopper in Tangkoko National Park, Northern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Tarsiers have five chitinase genes to digest the high amount of chitin in ...

The Philippine Tarsier is one of the smallest primates in the world ... Like all species of lemurs, Madame Berthe's mouse lemurs are indigenous to the island of Madagascar, though they have also been ...

The lemurs of Madagascar are at the centre of a new mystery. Scientists believe the story of how they arrived on the island is more complex than we thought. After looking again at the fossil ...

The Madagascar Poverty Assessment report launched in February 2024 provides an account of the evolution of poverty and living conditions in Madagascar in the last decade (2012-2022). These are the ...

As reported by Reuters, the group was doing research in the Sulawesi highlands of Indonesia, when they accidentally trapped and killed an infamous pygmy tarsier. In August of last year, a group of ...

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Currently, there are no airlines that fly direct to Madagascar. But we found flights with one or more stops from £542. When is the cheapest time to fly to Madagascar? We crunched some numbers and ...