Millions of years ago, the continents were all bunched together in a landmass named Pangea. Millions of years from now, ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean ... Scientists aren't certain a new ocean will form, but they say the geologic implications of the plates pulling apart ...

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

A 35-mile-long fissure is cutting through Ethiopia’s crust. Known as the East African Rift, it keeps spreading wider.

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several ...

A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

Stretching 4,000 miles, the East African Rift System is one of the largest in the world—and scientists just uncovered the ...

If the process continues, the Horn of Africa could break away and become its own island, with a brand-new ocean forming in between. How slow is “slow”? About 0.3 inches per year in some places ...

The splitting of Africa will create a new ocean, the sixth one. Unfortunately ... “Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent separated by the world’s sixth ocean.” ...

As the plates continue to move, it is expected that the Horn of Africa will break away from the rest of the continent, allowing the Indian Ocean to flood the area and form a new body of water.

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic ... Scientists aren't certain a new ocean will form, but they say the geologic implications of the plates pulling ...