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

Rainforests represent a major world biome, the researchers explain, but one that humans were not thought to have occupied until relatively recently. "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence ...

The study, published in the journal Nature, dates humans living in rainforests 80,000 years earlier than found in other sites around the world. Humans were not believed to have lived in ...

The earliest human rainforest presence in the world had been placed at about 70,000 years ago in Southeast Asia. Bété I was discovered in the early 1980s. Stone artifacts unearthed there from ...

But a new study published this week found some of our ancestors managed to survive in a tropical rainforest in West Africa much earlier than was known. A team of researchers found evidence that ...

Modern humans evolved around 300,000 years ago, but only began inhabiting rainforests much later. In fact, the earliest archaeological evidence of humans living in rainforest habitats is only ...

A study published Wednesday shows that as early as 150,000 years ago, some of them lived deep in a West African rainforest. “What we’re seeing is that, from a very early stage, ecological ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests at least 150 thousand years ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence now shows that humans lived in rainforests by at least 150 thousand years ...