(FrankRamspott/E+/Getty Images) Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought ...

Scientists have found that the crust beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift is thinning to a critical point, signaling that the ...

The African landmass is breaking apart faster than scientists previously thought, potentially leading to the fracturing of ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of ...

A vast new ocean stretching hundreds of miles could one day split Africa in two, scientists have warned, after discovering ...

The African continent is undergoing a slow but profound geological transformation that could eventually split the landmass in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. - Courtesy Prof. Thomas Gernon/University of Southampton ...

Beneath East Africa’s Turkana Rift, scientists have found the crust is thinning to a critical point, suggesting the continent ...

Since 2005, a 35-mile-long crack known as the East African Rift has been forming. In the scorching deserts of East Africa, ...

New seismic data show the crust in Kenya’s Turkana Rift has thinned to about 13 kilometers, marking a rare and advanced ...

Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such ...