What’s behind the strange rash of ’dinosaur’ sightings in the Congo?
For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...
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Is There a Dinosaur Hiding Out in the Congo Rainforest?
How Matching Dinosaur Footprints Ended Up on Opposite Sides of the Atlantic Ocean Meet the Hell Chickens, A Newly Discovered ...
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Dinosaurs may have first evolved in the Sahara and Amazon rainforest
Many think dinosaurs first emerged on land well south of the equator that now forms part of Argentina and Zimbabwe, but they may have actually arisen in tougher conditions near the equator ...
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New study maps Congo's bai ecosystems in unprecedented detail
"Tropical rainforest" might conjure images of close ... are located only in the rainforests of the Congo Basin of west-central Africa. Some stretching the length of 40 football fields, and some ...
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New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin
See All Key Ideas Cacao cultivation is a major threat to the Congo Basin rainforest, with new research showing just where expanding cultivation could imperil the region’s rich wildlife.
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Report: Logging companies plundering Congo’s rainforest
Over half of the Congo basin's 500 million hectares of forest are in Congo, whose forests boast the 5th greatest diversity of animals and plants in the world. Logging in Congo has long been ...
The new discovery tells about the actual origins of dinosaurs
A recent study suggests that dinosaurs likely originated from steamy equatorial regions like the Amazon rainforest, Congo basin, and Sahara Desert, ch ...