which would have made the area a forest. "Wherever we find human ancestors, we find evidence for open habitats similar to savannas — much more open and savanna-like than forested," Cerling said.

But then one day the ape decided to leave the forest for the savanna nearby. Or perhaps it was the savanna that moved, licking away at the edge of the forest one tree at a time until the fruits and ...

But there are actually two species of African elephant: The savanna elephant is larger, has curving tusks, and roams the open plains of sub-Saharan Africa. The smaller, darker forest elephant ...

Spring cleanup is underway at the Middlefork Savanna in Lake Forest, where prescribed burns have returned. Saturday’s burn included smoke on the horizon over the nearly 700 acres. Nearby ...

So what’s an urban parks director to do? Medlin and his staff are a year into the creation of a butterfly savanna at the Keystone Ancient Forest, the nearly 1,400-acre nature preserve west of ...