Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward continental breakup.

The Turkana Rift Zone in Kenya entered a critical stage in continental breakup about 4 million years ago.

Cambridge palaeoanthropologist teams up with his brother to understand Turkana's rich record of human evolution

Researchers have found that Earth’s underlying crust in the Turkana Rift region has been significantly thinned, presaging Africa’s eventual breakup—and with that finding, the researchers offer a new p...

This study indicates that the East African Rift System in northern Kenya may be closer to breaking apart than previously thought and that its development played an important role in the preservation o...