From the ring-tailed lemur to the aye-aye, a nocturnal primate, more than 20m years of unique evolutionary history could be wiped from the planet if nothing is done to stop Madagascar's threatened mammals going extinct, according to a new study.It would already take 3m years to recover the diversity of mammal species driven to extinction since humans settled on the island 2,500 years ago.
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