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

Recent scientific discoveries reveal two extraordinary phenomena that could change our understanding of Earth's hydrology.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

One of the world's continents is breaking apart faster than researchers previously predicted. The separation would create a ...