Once the split happens, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent separated by the world’s sixth ocean. Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of ...

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.

Africa will divide in two, creating a new ocean in real time. Scientists say a sixth ocean is forming as East Africa splits ...

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.

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 ...

a supercontinent that eventually broke apart into separate masses. "Plate tectonics and the Pangea supercontinent suggest that continents move and break up over (extremely long) periods of time ...

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.

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 ...