LSU Tigers head football coach Lane Kiffin is no stranger to controversy, and he had another one on his hands after he ...

A study of 50 crab species in Japan traces the iconic sideways walk to a single ancestor, suggesting the trait drove the ...

Paul Finebaum says LSU coach Lane Kiffin's racial diversity criticism of Ole Miss was motivated by bitterness over missing ...

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

If this continues to develop, this rift could grow into a new tectonic plate boundary—splitting the African continent in half ...

(jacus/iStock/Getty Images Plus) Hundreds of millions of years ago, our world looked very different from the way it does ...

(FrankRamspott/E+/Getty Images) Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break ...

A new study suggests that a rift in Kenya and Ethiopia has reached a critical stage in the split-up process, and that water ...

A new study of hot springs in Zambia’s Kafue Rift has found helium and carbon isotope signatures in the region. These ...

Scientists say they have evidence of a new continental rift forming in southern Africa that could eventually develop into a ...

The African continent is undergoing a slow but profound geological transformation that could eventually split the landmass in two. Scientists warn that tectonic activity along the East African ...

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is both a hotbed for fossil discoveries of our earliest ancestors and a literal hotbed of volcanic activity caused by shifting tectonic plates. Now researchers have found ...