A new study published in the journal Nature reveals that humans were living in African rainforests at least ... expansions impacted the plants and animals that shared the same niche space with ...

Humans lived under the leafy canopy of a West African rainforest by at least 150,000 years ago. Previously, the oldest secure evidence for humans living in African rainforests dated to about ...

Africa, Asia and Australia. The largest rainforest, the Amazon, is located in South America. More than half of the Earth's species of animals and plants live in tropical rainforests, even though ...