as recently as 500 years ago, the island of Madagascar was inhabited by giant lemurs, referred to as subfossil lemurs, that weighed between 10 and 200 kg (22 and 440 lb)?
although the giant fossa, formerly one of the top carnivores of Madagascar, is thought to be extinct, there is some anecdotal evidence of very large living fossas?
although no fossils of the extinct Malagasy Hippopotamus have been dated within the last 1,000 years, villagers in Madagascar described a similar creature still alive as recently as 1976?
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Madagascar was an island nation on planet Earth, located off the east coast of Africa.
When the USS Enterprise-E suffered widespread systems failures during a test flight around Luna, the ship was on trajectory to crash off the coast of Madagascar. The USS Korolev was able to tractor the Enterprise safely into Earth orbit. (TNGshort story: "On the Spot")
Madagascar is an island nation in the Indian Ocean, off the southeastern coast of Africa. The main island, also called Madagascar, is the fourth largest island in the world, and is home to five percent of the world's plant and animal species.