A new study says the flooding that killed more than 1,000 people has also likely killed dozens of a critically endangered orangutan. Climate change and deforestation likely made the damage worse.

Tapanuli orangutans survive only in Indonesia’s Sumatran rainforest where a mine expansion will cut through their home. Yet the mining company says the alternative will be worse ...

Critically endangered species live life on a knife-edge. Often with populations in the low hundreds, every individual is ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- Human activities such as hunting and logging have driven nearly one quarter of the world's primate species to the brink of extinction, according to a new report. Without ...

Bangkok : Indonesia's deadly flooding was an "extinction-level disturbance" for the world's rarest great ape, the tapanuli orangutan, causing catastrophic damage to its habitat and survival prospects, ...

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Researchers have identified a new species of great ape that lived around 11 million years ago, finding that it had a somewhat unusual living situation. The great apes, or hominids, are a family of ...

The fossil record of our ape ancestors in Africa is almost nonexistent for a period of about 8 or 9 million years. This long gap lasted from about 16.5 million to 7 to 9 million years ago, during the ...

A Leicester geneticist working with ape specialists at Twycross Zoo has developed a test which could help preserve highly vulnerable Gibbon populations from extinction A Leicester geneticist working ...