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http://www.newsweek.com/tapanuli-orangutan-scientists-discovered-new-species-great-ape-699056
A brand-new species of orangutan exists, scientists have determined, based on their analysis of a skull and a population of 800 animals living deep in the Indonesian forest.
Before 1997, this isolated population of orangutans in a remote jungle was little more than a myth. Then people confirmed that the animals were living there, but they suspected that it was a group of Sumatran orangutans, which are already known to science. In 2013, scientists received a mysterious skull belonging to one of the individuals. After studying the skull and the living animals, researchers realized that this creature was a previously unknown species.
A brand-new species of orangutan exists, scientists have determined, based on their analysis of a skull and a population of 800 animals living deep in the Indonesian forest.
Before 1997, this isolated population of orangutans in a remote jungle was little more than a myth. Then people confirmed that the animals were living there, but they suspected that it was a group of Sumatran orangutans, which are already known to science. In 2013, scientists received a mysterious skull belonging to one of the individuals. After studying the skull and the living animals, researchers realized that this creature was a previously unknown species.
