Lemurs with fossils (IMAGE)

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Lemurs with fossils

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More than 100 species of lemurs live on Madagascar today, but in recent history, the diversity of these animals was even greater. This illustration shows a Madagascar forest scene with several extant, or living, lemurs along with subfossil skulls of extinct lemurs.

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MARIJA STOJKOVIC

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