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

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

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

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

A scientist has warned that an area of East Africa could break away from the rest of the ... being separated by continuous forces of tectonic plates, with the process said to be similar to what ...

A 35-mile-long fissure in East Africa signals the continents gradual separation, leading to the formation of a new ocean in ...

Africa could be torn apart like paper amidst warnings a chunk of the continent is breaking away ... with the Somali and Nubian plates moving apart. This process is how the Atlantic Ocean ...

The ocean plate was once the seafloor of Neotethys — an ocean that formed when the supercontinent Pangaea broke up into a northern continent, Laurasia, and a southern continent, ...

Africa's tectonic plates have collided to form large mountains and pulled apart to create vast basins; they now appear to be splitting the continent in two. "What might happen is that the waters ...

Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously ... such 'cracks' will continue to form as the two plates move apart - with Madagascar also splitting into two separate ...