Experts say portions of the continent are pulling apart, creating the possibility that the Horn of Africa will become an island.

This continent may be dividing in two, according to a startling finding on the map of Earth. Africa is expected to split but only within millions of years.

On land, giant troughs such as the Great Rift Valley in Africa form where plates are tugged apart. If the plates there continue to diverge, millions of years from now eastern Africa will split ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

In the geologic history of Earth, shifting plate tectonics are commonplace, and Africa's impending rift is but another chapter in that story. The Earth's continents are far from constant.

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

A 35-mile-long crack was discovered along a section of the East African Rift (EAR) in Afar ... being separated by continuous forces of tectonic plates, with the process said to be similar to ...

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