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 ...

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

Deep beneath Africa, the African and Somali plates are moving apart at a rate ... it’s a preview of a future where continents break apart, oceans emerge, and the world as we know it changes ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A new ocean is forming in East Africa due to tectonic shifts, potentially reshaping the continent and altering global geography over millions of years.

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

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 ...