Deep in the forests of North Sumatra, Indonesia, lives the Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis), the world's rarest great ...

A pair of new studies suggest fewer than 700 Tapanuli orangutans remain after a cyclone tore through Indonesia last year.

As biodiversity continues to decline, strengthening protected areas, curbing illegal wildlife trade, restoring habitats and ...

With "Wicked" seemingly in the rearview mirror for good, Ariana Grande delivers her eighth studio album to lead a week of new ...

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service could soon declare that pygmy rabbits or Florida manatees are threatened with extinction. But under a policy change issued by the Trump administration on Friday, ...

Tasmanian tigers, otherwise known as thylacines, have been extinct since 1936. The species—which looks like a strange mix of a dog, zebra, and a kangaroo—was hunted to extinction, largely because ...

If humans vanished, evolution might not crown another primate. One unlikely marine predator has the brain, dexterity, and adaptability to change everything. Tim Coulson, a professor of zoology at the ...

While doing fieldwork on Indonesia’s Flores Island in the early 2000s, anthropologist Gregory Forth, PhD, frequently spoke to the locals living in the mountains. They told him that they sometimes ...

Summary: Laughter is a universal human trait shared by all living great apes, including chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orangutans. However, the exact evolutionary trajectory of laughter, and how ...

A study of chimps, gorillas and other great apes, including human children, sheds light on how laughter has evolved. By Emily Anthes Humor is deeply personal. A punchline or a pratfall that leaves one ...

A powerful storm tore through Sumatra, and the world’s rarest great ape lost a shocking share of its remaining population. Cyclone Senyar, which struck Indonesia in late November 2025, triggered ...