For decades, the Congo Basin was largely invisible to climate science. Now, a new generation of Central African researchers ...

Scientists have found that early humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than previously thought, a discovery that sheds new light on Homo sapiens’ ability to adapt to different environments ...

Humans were living in tropical rainforests tens of thousands of years earlier than previously thought, according to new research. The earliest evidence of humans living in such forests in Africa, ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 ... suited for cutting fibrous plants and other tropical forest resources. In 2020, archaeologist and ...

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 years ...

(Credit: Jimbob Blinkhorn, MPG) In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the potential to rewrite at least a chapter of human ...

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been published in a new study in Nature by researchers at the University of Sheffield. The ...

New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests by at least 150 thousand years ago in Africa, the home of our species. Our species originated in Africa around 300 thousand years ago ...

Tropical rainforests appeared to be the toughest ... But in 2018, Dr. Scerri and her colleagues challenged the idea that East African grasslands were the single cradle of humanity.

But this is not the only tropical rainforest with natural beauty to behold. South America, Africa and India also have an abundance of wildlife and wonder. But what is it that makes this biome home ...

In Africa, the earliest evidence of human rainforest habitation dated to 18,000 years ago. “Our results push back the earliest known presence of humans in tropical forests by more than twice the ...