It might not be a coincidence that one of the most interesting geologic locations in the world is also palaeoanthropology’s ...

Joseph Shavit Teeth are like tiny biological time capsules. They tell stories about ancient diets and environments long after ...

New research shows the Turkana Rift in eastern Africa has a much thinner crust than previously recognized, indicating it is further along in the continental rifting process. Scientists say this region ...

The planet is almost 25,000 miles around and 4.54 billion years old, and humans are still discovering some of the amazing ...

Scientists have discovered a huge tectonic boundary under Africa, running from Mozambique to Tanzania.

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The 12 newly designated geoparks are located in China, France, Greece, Ireland, Japan, Malaysia, Portugal, the Russian ...

Today UNESCO designated 12 new geoparks, bringing the total number of sites in the UNESCO Global Geopark Network to 241 in 51 countries. The network ...

New research reveals that a rift in Earth’s crust is just a few million years away from splitting the continent of Africa ...

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