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

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

This groundbreaking research offers a comprehensive reconstruction of Earth’s tectonic evolution from 1.8 Ga to the present, bridging critical gaps in pre-Pangean plate dynamics. By merging three ...

Snapshots from six computer simulations illustrating the distinct tectonic regimes of terrestrial planets, including the newly discovered “episodic-squishy lid” regime. This framework provides a new ...

Lake Turkana in northern Kenya is often called the cradle of humankind. Home to some of the earliest hominids, its fossil-rich basin has helped scientists piece together the story of human evolution.

Watch the Earth's tectonic plates grow, shrink, and jostle for position in this new model of the last billion years on the ...

A new geological study reshapes the timeline of a major tectonic collision that helped form the Andes, suggesting key events ...

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