Torn off from the Indian subcontinent some 88 million years ago, it’s a Petri dish of endemic evolution: the Texas-sized ...

Madagascar’s one-of-a-kind creatures are vanishing at an alarming rate, victims of deforestation and the illegal wildlife ...

Among its most fascinating historical inhabitants was the elephant bird (Aepyornis maximus), a colossal, flightless bird that ...

“So these are flat-tailed tortoises that are endemic to the coastal dry forests of western Madagascar,” said Herpetology Keeper Rachel Drown. “They’re critically endangered, so they’re under a real ...