In a concerning development, Africa is slowly undergoing geological changes due to tectonic forces, which are causing the ...

The continent’s landscape is evolving as large tectonic plates shift. Eventually, the Eastern countries will separate from ...

Original estimates put a complete split at tens of millions of years from now. "With the continent dividing at a rate of half an inch per year, those estimations have sped up," said Unilad.

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Before it split into the continents we know today, Earth was home to just a single landmass, or "supercontinent," called Pangea. Over tens of millions of years, as the familiar story goes ...

Perhaps initiated by heat building up underneath the vast continent, Pangaea began to rift, or split apart, around 200 million years ago. Oceans filled the areas between these new sub-continents.

Africa is splitting into two continents. The splitting of Africa will create a new ocean, the sixth one. Unfortunately, we will not witness the actual split in this lifetime; however, it is gradually ...

Around 250 million years ago, all of the continents were joined together as one supercontinent called Pangea. Over time, this huge mass of land split apart due to continental drift, eventually ...

Over the next several million years, this giant southern continent proceeded to break ... in the process closing an ocean named Tethys that had separated fragments of Pangea.