The human lineage originated about 2.5 million years ago, coinciding with the expansion of savannas — grasslands mixed with trees — across East Africa. As such, researchers have long ...

Cerling does not dispute that East African savannas became more expansive within the past 2 million years, or that human ancestors and relatives likely spent time in narrow "gallery forests" along ...

Kenya and Tanzania, the East African countries most often chosen for safari, are justifiably famous for their wildlife. For many travelers, seeing the region’s dazzling animals — lions ...

The isotope method indicates that savannas existed in the area as much as up to 7.4 million years ago. "Many scientists think that before 2 million years ago, things were forested in East Africa ...

Defensive Plant-Ants Stabilize Megaherbivore-Driven Landscape Change in an African Savanna. Current Biology , 2010; DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2010.08.015 Cite This Page : ...

In the East African savanna landscape, hippos and their poop play a critical role. By chomping on large amounts of silica-rich grass at night, then defecating into the Mara River during the day ...

Throughout a three-year-long project along with his wife, ecologist Sylvia Krell-Westerwalbesloh, they looked deep into the ecology of dung beetles in West and East African savannas. Their latest ...

Savanna elephants are endangered and forest ... Poaching peaked in 2011 and since has eased in some places, notably in parts of East Africa. But it persists and is worsening in other regions ...