Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

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

Africa is slowly tearing apart, and scientists are watching closely. The continent’s shifting plates could create a new ...

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

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

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

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