For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...

For centuries, at least, the indigenous Bantu peoples of Central, East, and Southern Africa have traded tales of a lumbering creature living in the Congo River Basin. The alleged dinosaur-like ...

The researchers concentrated on the Congo River Basin. It turns out that in Central ... 2 new species of birds: forest robin and owl. The most interesting new species: slender-snouted crocodile ...

Wildlife in the heart of the Congo Basin, an area that stretches from western ... overlaid this with areas of high biodiversity. Their maps show southern Cameroon, nearly all of Equatorial Guinea ...

It’s February, the dry season, and the river is low and malty. Falcons soar, and waterfowl skitter across the sky. Every few miles the immensity of rain forest ... in the Congo River Basin.

Scattered along the banks of the Ituri River ... the okapi, a forest giraffe, of which it holds some 15% of the world’s remaining 30,000. It's part of the the Congo Basin rainforest — the ...