Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

Earth has seven continents: Asia, Africa, North America, South America ... new cracks will likely form along the Great Rift Valley. While the end result — East Africa becoming a new continent ...

Speaking to DailyMail.co.uk, the academic said: "What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley." The academic ...

Experts say in about 50 million years, the African continent will split into two with the Somali tectonic plate which covers the Great Rift Valley ... of South America and Africa around ...

In the heart of Africa’s Great Rift Valley lies Katavi, a little-known National Park spanning more than three thousand square miles of western Tanzania. Here, Nature’s filmmakers capture a ...

AUSTRALOPITHECUS The first example of Australopithecus was found in 1925 in a limestone cave near Taung, in South Africa ... Southern Africa, mainly based around the Great Rift Valley - a fracture ...

Premieres Wednesdays, April 2–16, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app + Encore Sundays, April 6 - 20 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 In the heart of Africa’s Great Rift Valley lies Katavi, a little-known ...

In the heart of Africa’s Great Rift Valley lies Katavi, a little-known National Park spanning more than three thousand square miles of western Tanzania. Here, Nature’s filmmakers capture a ...