An archaeologist has supported claims that the Amazon rainforest is a man-made garden planted by a lost civilisation in ancient times. Ed Barnhart said archaeologists are constantly finding ...

The Taynish National Nature Reserve is located near the village of Tayvallich in Argyll and Bute, along Scotland's west coast ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered a 15-million-year-old fish fossil, Ferruaspis brocksi. It has preserved stomach contents and visible ...

Ancient humans lived in tropical rainforests much earlier than we first thought, a new study finds. Before now, the earliest evidence of humans (Homo sapiens) living in rainforest environments ...

Diana Vera, a passionate local guide from Serranía de la Lindosa, Colombia, leads a group of sweaty and panting European ...

Until our visit and the construction workers' find, no one had any idea that six meters under their feet were perfectly preserved relics of an ancient rainforest and exquisite fossilized pollen.

In the cold, lightless Pacific Ocean deep, the seabed is scattered with metal-rich rocks coveted by miners -- and huge ...

A study in Forest Ecosystems reveals that Australia's cool temperate rainforests are more disturbance-resilient than ...

So, off we went to this ancient rainforest. The Belum rainforest is carbon-dated to be 130 million years old, making it older than the Amazon in South America or the Congo in Africa. We were 21 ...