By Ayat S. Karokaro Seven years after being returned to the forests of northern Sumatra from a rehabilitation facility, a ...

Orangutans share 97% of our DNA, use tools, and can plan for the future, yet all three species now teeter on the edge of ...

Orangutans are known for living more solitary lives than other great apes. Adult female orangutans usually travel through the ...

A wildfire that reached the edge of an orangutan rehabilitation center in western Borneo is highlighting how Indonesia’s ...

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

A picture of two baby orangutans has captured attention and hearts online, with their tiny frames only hinting at the ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Alba, the world's only known albino orangutan, now has her own personal ...

A Sydney Zoo orangutan is using ropes and climbing again more than a year after world-first surgery for chronic pain.

In the dense forests of Indonesia, you can hear strange and haunting sounds. At first, these calls may seem like a random collection of noises—but my rhythmic analyses reveal a different story. Those ...

An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could hold the key to understanding how speech evolved in early humans. Rocky, who was eight at the time of the study, was able to copy the pitch and tone of vowel ...