Twelve-year-old Tsoavana, 15-year-old Faneva and their mother, Ramartina, pound rice in tandem to separate the husk from the grain. The family was paid to prepare the rice, a laborious process, in ...

Madagascar is a hotspot for gecko diversity, and the latest to appear on the tree of life is Uroplatus garamaso. U. garamaso, with a length of 8.3-13.9 cm (3.3-5.5 in), is one of the larger ...

If you think vanilla is that peculiar caramel-colored liquid you see on supermarket shelves, think again. The real vanilla is the “Caviar” of spices, also known as “Black Gold.” The most popular aroma ...

The biodiversity of Madagascar, the wildlife surveys carried out in Madagascar, endemic species of Madagascar, rainforest ...

An international team of researchers have discovered seven new species of tree frogs that make otherworldly calls in the rainforests of Madagascar. Their strange, high-pitched whistling calls sound ...

Being separated from all other land masses since the late Cretaceous, when dinosaurs still dominated many parts of the Earth, Madagascar has long been referred to as a “natural laboratory of evolution ...