There are those among us who would go just about anywhere and do just about anything for hidden treasure. Stories of treasure hunters both real and fictional populate our history books and ...

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It is most famous for its exceptionally long and skinny fingers. In fact, they are so long that the aye-aye's hand accounts for about 41% of the total length of the forelimb.. The animals also ...

The aye-aye’s fourth finger accounts for more than two-thirds the length of its hand; if humans had such a digit, it would be nearly a foot long. Its third digit, ...

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 ...

The aye-aye is one of nature's most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique features that set it apart. It ...

While the aye-aye is no King Kong-esque menace, Malagasy superstition has painted it as a Grim Reaper of sorts. Legend goes that if an aye-aye points at you with its elongated middle finger, you ...

Using a low-light camera, Fabre captured the female aye-aye, known as Kali, indulging in this questionable pastime. A CT scan shows an aye-aye picking its nose with its long, skinny middle finger.

An aye-aye is about as big as a house cat, but its clawed middle finger is some 8 centimeters long. And Kali was plunging almost the entire digit up her snout to sample her own snot with dainty licks.

In Kali’s defense, aye-aye fingers were made for picking. The primate’s hand makes up 41% of its forelimb (imagine an average-size human with a foot-long hand).

The aye-aye is one of nature's most fascinatingly bizarre creatures. Native to Madagascar, this lemur is the largest nocturnal primate in the world and has unique features that set it apart. It has ...

Using a low-light camera, Fabre captured the female aye-aye, known as Kali, indulging in this questionable pastime. A CT scan shows an aye-aye picking its nose with its long, skinny middle finger.