The East African rift features some of Africa’s ... provides some varied deserts. Believed by many geologists to be the oldest desert in the world, the Namib in Southern Africa was created ...

AFRICA is splitting apart at double the speed than scientists first thought. A 35-mile-long crack in Ethiopia’s desert, first ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...

Homo erectus outlived and outadapted other hominins by mastering life in extreme environments of Eastern Africa, a new study ...

The research challenges the long-held belief that only Homo sapiens had the capacity to thrive in extreme environments.

Dr. Durkin and his colleagues found that Engaji Nanyori was at the southern edge of a vast belt of desert shrub lands that stretched out of Africa, across much of the Middle East and into Asia.