Beneath a remote basin spanning Kenya and Ethiopia, geologists have found something that rewrites two stories at once: how fast a continent can tear itself apart, and why one small patch of East Africa became one of the richest fossil-hunting grounds on Earth. A Crust Thinner Than Anyone Expected The study, published in Nature Communications by lead author Christian Rowan … [Read more...] about Africa Is Breaking Apart Faster Than We Thought, Forming a New Ocean