Celebrate International Tarsier Day with two new species of tarsiers

stilwell/ May 4, 2017/ News/ 0 comments

Two new species of tarsiers discovered in Indonesia. Check this out! The scientific description of two new tarsier species are posted online in the journal Primate Conservation today, May 4. “Two New Tarsier Species (Tarsiidae, primates) and the Biogeography of Sulawesi, Indonesia” Tarsiers bear uncanny resemblance to Yoda, and are widely rumored to have been the inspiration for Yoda’s physical

Welcome to tarsier.org

stilwell/ July 29, 2016/ News/ 0 comments

Tarsier.org is a science-based conservation organization founded by Dr. Myron Shekelle, who received a Ph.D. and M.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and a bachelors degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He received a National Science Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship and a National Science Foundation International Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Dr. Shekelle is a member of the IUCN Species