Other than humans, the surviving great ape species today number six: chimpanzees, bonobos, eastern and western gorillas, and Sumatran and Bornean orangutans. But a seventh great ape has now been ...

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JAKARTA, Indonesia-- A remote population of frizzy-haired orangutans on the Indonesian island of Sumatra seems to be a new species of primate, scientists say. But the purportedly newest member of the ...

All of the orangutans in the world would probably only fit into a college football stadium. Today, scientists are announcing that just one of the sections of that stadium is actually an entirely ...

The Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis) of Sumatra is both the world’s newest known great ape species and its most threatened, after being officially categorised this week as Critically ...