Discover why Africa is slowly splitting into two continents due to the East African Rift. This geological transformation, ...

An international research team led by the University of Göttingen has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the ...

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

An international research team has investigated the influence of the forces exerted by the Zagros Mountains in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on how much the surface of the Earth has bent over the last ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a ...

For millions of years, as the Arabian and Eurasian continental plates have drifted toward each other, the underground ancient ...

A stunning new study is challenging the conventional wisdom about Earth’s continents. For years, we’ve been taught that Earth ...

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 dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean may form sooner than expected. The change could alter the climate and ...