Indonesian authorities have shut down a macabre trade in wildlife skulls and parts online, seizing 94 items and detaining two ...

A new study finds that primate skulls, including those from threatened species such as orangutans, gibbons and proboscis monkeys, are openly sold in Bali shops, despite the trade being illegal.

Their results showed that the skull and jaw fragments actually came from two different species, a human and an ape, probably an orangutan. Scratches on the surfaces of the teeth, visible under the ...

A quarter of the skulls traded came from legally protected species, including critically endangered Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), gibbons (genus Hylobates), and endangered proboscis monkeys ...