B ack in 2018, a bumper crop of new spider assassins was discovered in Madagascar. They represented four new species in the ...

An expedition into Madagascar’s largest and most intact forest found 21 species that had been considered lost to science. A team studying the Makira Forest found three iridescent, nearly ...

An unusual spider lurks in Madagascar’s rainforests. With an elongated neck and a curved, beak-like mouth, this spider bears a striking resemblance to a pelican. But to other arachnids, these ...

Lemurs that survive only in Madagascar, snakes that hunt with and solitary Indian rhinos. These are just some of the rare ...

It’s not often that spiders are a gift of fellowship. It’s perhaps even less often that they are received with enthusiasm. Yet the unlikely occurred in May when the Smithsonian Institution and the ...

Antananarivo, Madagascar – Over 300 tortoises have been rescued from poachers and released back into the wild in two separate incidents in Madagascar. Local police found 271 radiated and one baby ...

But no Buitinga spiders are known to live on Madagascar, despite the fact that Madagascar is closer to the African mainland and much larger than Réunion. Complicating the mystery, ...