Madagascar is home to seven species of baobab trees, of which six are found nowhere else on the planet. Many of the trees have been alive for well over 1,000 years. The ancient trees have become ...

As an undergraduate at the University of Cambridge in the late 1960s, anthropologist Dame Alison Richard spent a miserable summer in Panama trying to study monkeys. It rained constantly and poisonous ...

History of scientific exploration -- Geology and soils -- Climate -- Forest ecology -- Human ecology -- Marine and coastal ecosystems -- Plants -- Invertebrates ...

The island of Madagascar—one of the last large land masses colonized by humans—sits about 250 miles (400 kilometers) off the coast of East Africa. While it’s still regarded as a place of unique ...

CHICAGO–All of Madagascar's living Carnivora (an order of mammals that includes dogs, cats, bears, hyenas and their relatives) descended from a single species that dispersed from Africa to Madagascar, ...

STRI copy 39088014662829 purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. AFA copy 39088019013317 gift of Janet Stanley. From the Publisher: Two thousand years ago, the island of Madagascar ...

Madagascar is home to seven species of baobab trees, of which six are found nowhere else on the planet. Many of the trees have been alive for well over 1,000 years. The ancient trees have become ...