For decades, scientists believed ancient humans avoided dense rainforests, treating them as nearly impossible environments ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery in West Africa is challenging long-held assumptions about early human adaptability and migration. Evidence from a site in Côte d'Ivoire reveals that Homo ...

A 150,000-year-old site in Côte d'Ivoire nearly doubles previous estimates of how long ago humans first lived in rainforests.

Scientists used to believe early humans largely stayed away from Africa's dense tropical rainforests. However, a new ...

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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 18,000 ...

In the late ‘80s, a team of Soviet and West African archaeologists discovered an African rainforest site that had the ...

Part of the larger Congo Basin, the 90-year-old Odzala-Kokoua National Park in the central African country of the Republic of the Congo (also known as Congo-Brazzaville) is an incredibly valuable ...