15 Terrifying New Discoveries Made By Scientists In Africa That Changed Everything

Africa has the longest record of human habitation in the world, hence, the reason so many ancient discoveries are made on the continent. The first hominins emerged 6-7 million years ago in Africa. Join us, as we look at 15 terrifying new discoveries made by scientists in Africa that changed everything,

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Discoveries Of A New Continent And Ocean

Geologists have confirmed the formation of a new ocean as the African continent splits in half. In 2005, a 35-mile-long rift appeared in the Ethiopian deserts of the Far region, indicating the beginning of a new sea. Africa's and Arabia's tectonic plates collide in the desert and have been gradually separating for about 30 million years. The same motion has split the Red Sea, but it is only happening at a fraction of an inch per year. Humanity may soon have two motherlands. Geologists studying the continent's plate tectonics have divided Africa's 54 nations.

The East African Rift, which separates Kenya and Tanzania from the rest of the continent, runs through Mozambique from the Afar region of northern Ethiopia. Zambia and Uganda, for example, will have their own coastlines. Several currently active volcanoes along the river, including the Aloo Dalapila in Ethiopia and the Old Wenyolangai in Tanzania, are said to provide new insights into the process. For more than 50 years, the Erta Ale volcano in Ethiopia has erupted continuously. For the past two years, the Victoria microplate, the largest of its kind on Earth and tucked between each side of the rift, has been rotating against the clock.

Bird Of Saqqara

The famous "Egyptologists" of old discovered Pa-di-Imen's tomb in Saqqara, Egypt, in 1898. The tomb find, like any great discovery of the time, was replete with artifacts, painted walls, mummies, and all the goods and worldly belongings left behind to aid the deceased in the afterlife. Among the usual tools, arts, pottery, and other items, the archaeologists discovered a small wooden carved bird. It lay gently on a sort of table laid there by unknown hands 2,200 years ago, around 200 BC. The small wooden bird weighed slightly more than 39 grams and was nearly perfectly symmetrical. It was also discovered that the bird model had been painstakingly carved from the wood of a sycamore tree.

A wing that was carved separately and fitted into a groove on the top of the fuselage measured exactly 7.1 inches in span. The wings were astonishingly well-crafted, with a modern airfoil shape and reversal dihedral. The fuselage tapered perfectly; its shape was so aerodynamic that it resembled the shape of a modern Cirrus SR20 plane when viewed from above. Given that the Wright Brothers' first flight was still five years away, the little bird was simply categorized as a representation of an actual bird, though left unadorned, in the mind of the 1898 archaeologist. Unlike any other known bird, the tail rotated 90 degrees vertically, as if it were a rudder. As a result, if one tried to fly it or imagine it as a bird, the design lacked the pitch stabilization that a horizontal stabilizer provides, making actual flight impossible.

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