Researchers found evidence humans lived at a site in southern Côte d’Ivoire, a region of present-day rainforest, about 150,000 years ago.

After a century of decreased sightings, reports of a long-necked water monster the size of a hippopotamus are once again ...

Rainforests may have been an important center for early human evolution, challenging the idea that early humans avoided rainforests because […] ...

However, evidence collected from Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa provides a different story. Tools collected from the site showcased that humans were living in the rainforests of the region for ...

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights into our ancestors' ability to adapt to challenging environments ...

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

"Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago, and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast ...

(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 ...

Eslem Ben Arous, researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, said: "Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Before our study, the oldest secure evidence for habitation in African rainforests was around 18 thousand years ago and the oldest evidence of rainforest habitation anywhere came from southeast ...