While continental drifts take eons to fully effectuate, this ongoing split has experts concerned about its rapid progress.

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.

Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

The enchanting dunescape stretches over 43 miles (70 km) along the coast and over 30 miles (50 km) inland. Lençois translates ...

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as extension continues along the rift, the rift valley will sink lower and ...

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

In the arid deserts of Ethiopia, a geological marvel has been quietly unfolding since 2005—a 35-mile-long fissure known as ...

New reports have uncovered shocking details about the formation of the world’s sixth ocean!250 million years ago, the ...

Seismic upheaval in the Awash Fentale area has uprooted thousands from their homes. It has also raised questions about the ...

Previously, researchers believed that the split would take tens of millions of years, but now scientists say it could happen ...

Africa has been gradually splitting into two, slowly creating what will be a new ocean. While we first learned about this two ...