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

On a night in 1997, Benjamin Dauda killed a gorilla for the first time. Shrouding his lanky frame in dark fog, he stalked a foraging troop, finally dispatching his bullet on his mark. It was a giant ...

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

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 ...

From that day forward, astronomers have officially classified Pluto as a “dwarf planet,” one of several ... how seemingly small and unimportant people can achieve greatness, if given the ...

The Utica Zoo launched a new Animal Experiences program last fall, offering guests an exclusive, behind-the-scenes ...

Rwanda waged the First Congo War against Zaire with the help of other African states (most significantly ... may have reached over three million people by 2004. Between 2002 and 2003, Rwanda ...

The celestial duo consists of a massive Be star, 12 times the mass of the Sun, and a white dwarf, a dense stellar remnant with a mass similar to our Sun. This rare pairing, found in the Small ...

Isolated by mountains along the East African Rift is Lake Tanganyika. More than 400 miles long, it is the continent's deepest ...

At least 120 dangerous wild animals such as alligators, deadly snakes and European bison are among the exotic creatures being ...

Test your geographical knowledge of African flags with this quiz! With Geographical’s daily quizzes, if you get more than 75 per cent correct, you win a 30 per cent discount on any Geographical ...

People of African descent often have non-communicable and infectious diseases at the same time. Research needs to be done ...