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To celebrate all the work does for lemur conservation as well as work on fossil primates, here's some drawings of Madagascar's subfossil lemurs.
Here is a baby Megaladapis grandidieri, a species of koala lemur.

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2022-08-20

paleoart of the giant aye-aye is scary too but like in a fun way you know like he’s still cute!! unlike megaladapis

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2021-10-17

Some more stuff for island fauna for
Aepyornis, Megaladapis, Deinogalerix and Thecodontosaurs. The last one is for me especially interesting because the animals not only lived on islands but were found in cave deposits.

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2021-09-25

Story from about our analysis of an extinct giant koala lemur (Megaladapis edwardsi) paleogenome, led by , published in : https://t.co/K8er8lrx7T Illustrations: & Marija Stojkovic.

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2021-06-30

Did you know: giant lemurs recently lived on Madagascar?! We used ancient DNA methods to sequence & analyze the nuclear genome of the extinct koala lemur, Megaladapis edwardsi. The paper, led by , is now in PNAS: https://t.co/7CYUlaIZr1 Illustration: https://t.co/g2WuM3S5PQ

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2021-06-24

When I made a drawing of what some recently extinct lemur species could have looked like it was of course uneducated and a lot of guesswork. (and it's slightly cartoony with large eyes) But I refuse to accept the Alf megaladapis on wikipedia, haha. Real animals are CUTE

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2020-07-11

Results from the flocking together
Effigia, Dryosaurus, Edestus and Megaladapis.

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2020-07-04

flocking together! megaladapis, dryosaurus, edestus, 20 min each. had a ton of fun with these, might polish them a bit at some point.

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2020-07-04

Highlights from the Carnotaurus, Chalicotherium, Henodus and Megaladapis.

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2018-05-21

Yay, finished! Subfossil lemurs, some of these giants still walked around as recent as 500 years ago. Pictured are the Babakotia (sloth lemur), Megaladapis (koala lemur), Archaeoindris (gorilla lemur) and Hadropithecus (monkey lemur). ring-tailed lemur for scale.

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2018-05-01