Analyses indicated that when humans were dropping their stone tools in the region, it was a heavily wooded wet forest, typical of humid West African rainforests. Ancient pollen, silicified plant ...

The volcanic island of Bioko, about 160 kilometers, or 100 miles, northwest of mainland Equatorial Guinea, is carpeted in ...

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 ...

The research team also suggested that the West African tropical rainforest could have been a central area for early human evolution. They plan to conduct further studies at other archaeological ...

They indicated that when humans were dropping their stone tools in the region, it was a heavily wooded wet forest, typical of humid West African rainforests. Sheffield University Professor Mark ...

typical of humid West African rainforests. Professor Mark Bateman, from the University of Sheffield’s School of Geography and Planning, used a dating technique called Optically Stimulated ...

West Africa has been home to some great kingdoms ... The kingdom of Ife developed in the rainforest in the 600s. Its art and religion influenced the culture of Benin, which began in the 900s ...

HABITAT: Forest elephants occupy the rainforests of West and Central Africa. RANGE: The majority of remaining forest elephant populations occur in Central Africa, in the countries of Gabon, Democratic ...

Located In eastern Sierra Leone, covering 70,000 hectares lies Gola Rainforest National Park (GRNP), one of the last remaining intact tracts of the tropical Upper Guinean forests in West Africa.