“Now extinct, Homo erectus existed more than an estimated 1.5 million years ... from the East African Rift floor and Afromontane areas as early as two million years ago,” Professor Petraglia ...

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 ... somewhere between 1 to 20 million years from now.

But a scientist has recently warned that it would likely happen within one to five million years. Africa's tectonic ... flood what is now the East African Rift Valley," Ken Macdonald, a professor ...

Researchers believe that members of the human family - hominids - and African apes once had a common ancestor, perhaps as recently as 5 to 10 million years ... the Great Rift Valley - a fracture ...

Spanning an area of 50 hectares in the Great Rift Valley, between the extinct volcanoes of Mount ... deposited more than a million years ago. Robert Opuka from the National Museums of Kenya based at ...

A new study led by recent undergraduate student Caitlyn Nojiri and co-authored by astronomy and astrophysics professor Enrico ...

Africa could be torn apart like paper amidst warnings a chunk of the continent is breaking away. An area of East Africa could be separated from the continent sooner than previously thought, with a ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

It is likely that settlement took place over thousands of years perhaps moving north from the Rift Valley of Eastern ... land supporting an estimated 1.8 million people. The key populations ...