A new study challenges the notion that anatomically modern humans began inhabiting rainforest habitats just 70,000 years ago.

For years, rainforests were thought to be barriers to early human survival, but new evidence has shattered this assumption. A ...

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

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

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

Learn how a West African excavation shows that early humans lived in multiple ecosystems simultaneously, challenging our ...

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

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

Spiders are declining in livestock-grazed areas, while ticks and mites are increasing. This change affects ecosystems and ...

Many travelers focus on the well-known Amazon River and popular eco-lodges, overlooking the hidden gems deep within the ...

Researchers discovered evidence for human habitation of rainforests 150,000 years ago. This pushes back the oldest known evidence of humans in rainforests by more than double the previously known ...

The earliest evidence of humans living in such forests in Africa, around 150,000 years ago, has been discovered.