Botched ID discovery prompts radical lemur rethink
Cosmos Magazine - Tue 21 Aug 18Dental evidence suggests a whole new story for Madagascar’s primates. Kimberly Riskas reports.
A fossil mistaken for a bat may shake up lemurs’ evolutionary history
ScienceNews - Tue 21 Aug 18On Madagascar, a type of lemur called aye-ayes may have a singular evolutionary history.
New perspective on how lemurs got to Madagascar
BBC News - Tue 21 Aug 18The history of the lemurs, the most endangered group of mammals, is more complex than we thought.
Enigmatic African fossils rewrite story of when lemurs got to Madagascar
Phys.org - Tue 21 Aug 18Discovered more than half a century ago in Kenya and sitting in museum storage ever since, the roughly 20-million-year-old fossil Propotto leakeyi was long classified as a fruit bat.
Enigmatic African fossils rewrite story of when lemurs got to Madagascar, ScienceDaily - Tue 21 Aug 18Image of the Day: A Case of Mistaken Identity
The Scientist - Wed 22 Aug 18By reevaluating a fossil species, researchers have developed a new theory for the lemur colonization of Madagascar.
20 million year old primate jaw bones show that lemurs came to Madagascar much later than thought
Daily Mail - Tue 21 Aug 18Experts from the University of Southern California now believe the fossil of the strange creature wasn't a bat, as previously thought, but an ancient relative of the primate known as aye-aye. ...
A new look at an old fossil reveals how lemurs could have evolved
ZME Science - Tue 21 Aug 18An fascinating prospect.