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Mozilla Namoroka, Aimed at Protecting Lemurs

Until recently, few people would have thought of using “Madagascar” and “Firefox” in the same sentence, but since the latest code name for the latter was released, this no longer seems an unlikely phrase. For those of you who do not know, the 3.6 version of Firefox is called Namoroka, named af...

18 December 2009
07:15 GMT

An Odd Ancient Giant Lemur

Before the human settlement on the island, around 200 AD, the island of Madagascar (off eastern Africa) was inhabited by huge birds weighing one half of a tonne and huge lemurs as big as gorillas. Lemurs are the most primitive primates and, even today, Madagascar still represents their heaven, the island comprising t...

7 April 2008
03:50 GMT

Nature's Most Sophisticated Gliding Investigated Using Wii Technology

The flying lemurs of southeastern Asia are the best gliders amongst mammals. They have a patagium (skin membrane like in the bat's wings) that is as large as geometrically possible and can glide as far as 70 m (235 ft) with minimal loss of height, and the maximal glides can be 130 m (433 ft) long, as much as two...

8 February 2008
04:53 GMT

7 Things About Our Ghost Ancestors

1.These are monkeys before turning into real monkeys. 50 million years ago, the lemurs, our remote ancestors, were widespread, but clime changed and the emergence of the monkeys brought them to extinction. Some were saved in the island of Madagascar, which was just splitting from Africa. There were few mammals on the...

19 January 2008
03:43 GMT

This Is a Flying Monkey!

Human are primates. Our closest relatives are the apes, monkeys and lemurs. But the question is: which group of mammals is closest to primates?A new genetic research claims to have closed the debate: it's not the tree shrews, once even included amongst the primates, but the colugos, also called flying lemurs, sq...

2 November 2007
03:56 GMT


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