Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. "OMG!

On December 6, the Denver Zoo announced that Tonks, one of its most recent additions, was almost ready to greet the public. The new animal: An aye-aye. “A what-what?” you might ask. Tonks has been ...

It's rough being an endangered aye-aye lemur: It takes 2 to 3 hours to copulate, and if you don't have a good teacher, you may never procreate at all. A pair of the nocturnal creatures from Madagascar ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The world’s largest nocturnal primate—the aye-aye—is ...

The aye-aye looks like someone took a bat, a rat, and a gremlin and stuck them in a blender, then gave the result one incredibly long middle finger that it uses like a Swiss Army knife. This bizarre ...

With its bulging yellow eyes and giant floppy ears, this cute baby aye-aye just wants to be loved. But the six-week-old lemur is considered an evil omen in parts of its native Madagascar and must be ...