Since 1925 there have been numerous finds of Australopithecus fossils in East and Southern Africa, mainly based around the Great Rift Valley - a fracture in the earth's surfaces that runs 3,500 ...

Granitic rock forms at depth, and comprises approximately two-thirds of the Earth's crust. In granites, water flows predominantly along fractures created by tectonic, thermal and erosional events.

But due to Earth’s soft centre and the tectonic plates, the contents are still moving today – in fact, it is thought that ...

Scientists detected living microorganisms within a sealed fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock from South Africa, making them ... an associate professor of earth and planetary science at the ...

The rock is 2 billion years old and was found in South Africa ... evolution of very early life on Earth.” The microbes were hanging out inside a sealed fracture on the rock, which was formed ...