A rare archaeological find in Winnipeg at the dig site of the new Canadian Museum for Human Rights: an 800 year old footprint!
Raising hopes for the survival of the species,
a rare critically endangered species of lemur, the greater bamboo lemur, was discovered in the Torotorofotsy wetlands of Madagascar some 400 kilometres North of where they traditionally live.
"Finding the extremely rare Prolemur simus in a place where nobody expected it was probably more exciting than discovering a new lemur species," said Edward Louis, a U.S. conservation geneticist who coordinated the joint research, in a statement.
Raising hopes for the survival of the species, a rare critically endangered species of lemur, the greater bamboo lemur, was discovered in the Torotorofotsy wetlands of Madagascar some 400 kilometres North of where they traditionally live.
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