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.

The continent called Greater Adria resurfaces in the scientific community, bringing with it a new way of understanding the Earth's movements. It was nearly 240 million years ago: Greater Adria had ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Ever since the continents were all mapped ... but then broke apart and somehow "drifted" to their separate places on the globe. Although the calculations of Greenland's movement were found ...