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 ...

And no animal embodies the quirky brilliance of adaptation quite like the Aye Aye. As you'll see in the video, with his ...

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.

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).

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.

To find the answer, the researchers took a CT scan of an aye-aye specimen from a museum and then modeled the head and hand on a computer, according to Defector.The model showed the finger “going ...

New research shows that a type of primate known as an aye-aye loves picking its nose. Researchers say the findings raise interesting questions about why nose-picking is such a common behavior.

The aye-aye is the newest member of an exclusive club: animals that pick their nose. The primates from Madagascar have been recorded for the first time inserting their eight-centimetre-long finger ...

Aye-ayes use their long middle finger to pick their nose, a first for this lemur species. But scientists aren’t sure why these animals picked up the habit. Skip to main content.

The nocturnal Aye-Aye lemur, native to Madagascar, possesses a uniquely thin and elongated middle finger crucial for its survival. This remarkable adaptation allows the Aye-Aye to locate wood ...

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.

Including aye-ayes and humans, 12 species of primate have been observed snacking on snot. Unlike humans' relatively short digits, the aye-aye's long and skinny middle finger is perfectly shaped ...