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 ...

Nowadays, the southern Ivory Coast is a tropical rainforest ecosystem ... who were strongly adapted to living in rainforests did not often encounter people who were adapted to living in open ...

By far the oldest evidence of humans living in dense forests comes from a site in Ivory Coast, where stone tools and plant remains reveal a human presence stretching back 150,000 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.

Humans were living in tropical rainforests tens of thousands ... an archaeological site from the 1980s currently found within rainforest, in which stone tools had previously been found deep ...

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 ... plants and other tropical forest ...

A tropical rainforest is different from a temperate ... there are also millions of people who make the rainforest their home. Some people live on the edge of the rainforest nearer larger towns ...

Tropical rainforests are hot and wet ... Image caption, The Tupi Guarani people live in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. There are many different Amazon groups in addition to the Tupi Guarani.

This grows wild in Central and South America and cultivating it can be a forest-friendly source of income for people ... rainforest and its berries, rich in protein and minerals, can be harvested ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico — Authorities in Puerto Rico are searching for a tourist from Wisconsin they say got lost in the dense tropical rain forest of El Yunque in the U.S. territory's east.

Researchers have discovered that humans lived in tropical rainforests 150,000 years ago, around 100,000 years earlier than previous evidence suggested.