The East Africa Rift is slowly splitting apart and is expected to eventually fill with water, forming a brand new ocean. U.S. ... The East African Rift formed 30 million years ago.

Rhythmic pulsing deep beneath landlocked east Africa is literally tearing the continent apart. But while the effects won’t ...

The East African Rift System is a 4,000-mile-long, 22-million-year-old zone that extends from Jordan to Mozambique. And it's been increasingly active in the past two decades, leading to ...

A change toward biotic homogenization, or faunal uniformity, started about 3 million years ago, driven by the loss of endemic species in functional groups and a rise in the number of grazing ...

A new study has provided a major update on why Africa is being split into two. The rift has been happening gradually for ...

We used to think tropical, C4-dominated grasslands only appeared in the last 8 million years or so, depending on the continent. Instead, both phytolith data and isotopic data showed that C4-dominated ...

A giant rift is slowly tearing Africa, the second-largest continent, apart. This depression — known as the East African Rift — is a network of valleys that stretches about 2,175 miles (3,500 ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

Rainfall is predicted to increase in east Africa with climate change, driving further lake level rises in the future. It's not entirely bad news, for the flamingos at least.