Why are lemurs nearly extinct, and yet so diverse?

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Jan 8, 2025, 8:40 am109 pts
Lemurs, small, big-eyed primates that live in the trees of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa, are a mystery of evolution. When the first ones arrived there tens of millions of years ago, they found an island with wildly diverse ecosystems, from wet tropical forests in the east to arid expanses in the…

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