Adam Hartstone-Rose studies the muscles of forearms, which are surprisingly intricate and easily overlooked. The delicate movements of our hands, for example—like the ability to play a Mozart piano ...

The aye-aye looks like someone took a bat, a rat, and a gremlin and stuck them in a blender, then gave the result one incredibly long middle finger that it uses like a Swiss Army knife. This bizarre ...

Think sprite or hobgoblin and you are nearly there when it comes to the Aye-Aye, surely one of the weirdest looking creatures on earth? With its large saucer-like eyes, massive ears, and long skeletal ...

With its spindly fingers and bat-like ears, the aye-aye already stands out from other lemurs. Now, researchers have found a bizarre feature that sets it apart from every other primate, too: a sixth ...

If it seems too good to be true, the old cliché goes, it probably is. And it doesn’t get much gooder than the bizarre hand of the aye-aye, a specialized lemur that uses a hyper-elongated middle finger ...

You know bats and dolphins ‘echolocate’ to find their prey, sending out blips of squeaky SONAR-like sound waves that bounce off fish or moths in the dark. And people do it, too, using expensive ...

The world’s most demonic lemur is also its most endangered. Meet the creature with the ugliest finger on the planet. At night, in the forests of Madagascar, a dark specter drifts through the canopy.

My mother used to tell me I’m a unique snowflake, and also that this is my last warning to stop monkeying with the damn thermostat. But let’s face it, I’m not unique. You’re not either. We’re all born ...