Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Pygmies women and children in the south of Cameroon on February 21, 2017. The girl in white is pregnant and abandoned by her ...

Pygmy chief Mbomba Bokenu says he may soon let loggers cut his people's forests, and all he expects in return are soap and a few bags of salt. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access ...

The Grim Reaper can cut life short and, under the right circumstances, whittle those still standing down to the size of pygmies. That’s the controversial conclusion of a new study, published in the ...

Why the Pygmies of West Africa have such short stature, while neighboring groups don't, has been somewhat of a mystery. Now new research suggests unique changes in the Pygmy's genome have both led to ...

When members of the BaYaka Pygmies living in the northern Republic of Congo get sick, they don't just go to the doctor for a prescription. Instead, they rely on their shared knowledge of medicinal ...

The African pygmies, an ethnic group characterized by proportionate shortness of stature, attain normal plasma concentrations of human growth hormone (HGH) after arginine infusion and insulin-induced ...

Robert Siegel interviews filmmaker Lavinia Currier about the music used in her film Oka!, which depicts the journey of Louis Sarno, who traveled to the Central African Republic as an ethnomusicologist ...

BAYANGA, Central African Republic: Dzanga-Sangha, a wildlife sanctuary in southwest Central African Republic, is a remote place, linked to the rest of the world by a narrow trail that becomes ...

KINSHASA, Congo — Yongela Bongo kept the secret from her husband for the entire seven years they were married. But when he finally discovered the truth, he kicked her out on the street--keeping their ...

NORTH KIVU, Congo — Nana sleeps on a pillow of marijuana. It’s a trick his grandfather taught him to make the buds more potent, he explains while tending his sparse plot at the edge of a mud hut ...

Dinosaurs 'He began to cry, and almost fell to the floor': The fluffy fossil that finally showed the world that birds are dinosaurs The Americas DNA study of nearly 200 Indigenous genomes reveals ...