Study published in Nature pushes back the known evidence of human habitation in rainforests by over 80,000 years.

New research suggests that humans inhabited the rainforests of West Africa roughly 150,000 years ago, providing new insights ...

The findings push back the timing of ancient human rainforest occupation "by more than double," said archaeologist Eslem Ben ...

If this Africa-wide theory were true, then early humans must have figured out how to live in many environments beyond ...

New evidence reveals early humans lived in African rainforests 150,000 years ago, reshaping our understanding of human ...

Scientists have long believed that hundreds of thousands of years ago, humans first learned to thrive in East African grasslands before spreading out and adapting to new environments. But a new study ...

Rainforests are a major world biome which humans are not thought to have inhabited until relatively recently. New evidence ...

This oldest known evidence of people living in tropical forests supports an idea that human evolution occurred across Africa.

The earliest evidence of humans living in tropical rainforests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been published in a ...

Cocoa farming in West Africa is endangering Goliath beetles, which are crucial to their ecosystem. Deforestation for cocoa ...

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 ...