Gigantopithecus blacki: Why the Largest Ape Went Extinct ...

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, ...

Only 716 Tapanuli orangutans are estimated to remain. New research shows that forest loss, logging and extreme weather are pushing the world’s rarest great ape closer to extinction.

Climate change-fueled landslides wiped out nearly one in 10 remaining members of the world's rarest great ape species on Indonesia's Sumatra island, scientists said Wednesday. A single weather event ...

A severe weather event in Indonesia has decimated the population of a critically endangered species of orangutan. Monumental flooding in November killed roughly 1,000 people in Indonesia. It also had ...