Recent research by scientists at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT), Texas Tech University, and several other collaborating institutions have identified ancient fossils of a newly ...

But there's another forest, about the size of Mexico, in Africa, covered with tropical grasslands, savannas and shrublands. The Miombo forest is the largest dry woodland we probably never heard of.

part of the Pic de Fon classified forest reserve in the southeast of Guinea, West Africa. Cheek described the day of discovery to Mongabay: "You're a long way from anywhere that's dry, and you're ...