Enormous "mud waves" buried under the Atlantic seabed formed 117 million years ago as the Atlantic Ocean opened up.

In the dry, sun-scorched deserts of Ethiopia, a slow but astonishing transformation has been unfolding since 2005. A ...

Tectonic plates shifting in Africa could one day cause a new ocean to form. The plates in northeast Africa are moving at a ...

Scientists tracking tectonic activity along the East African Rift say the continent is slowly splitting apart, People ...

A part of Northern Africa is slowly splitting apart from the rest of the continent and may eventually create a whole new ...

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

A slow-moving geological change in East Africa could reshape the continent and the world. Tectonic forces are gradually ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean ... Scientists aren't certain a new ocean will form, but they say the geologic implications of the plates pulling apart ...

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If the new ocean does form, scientists predict it will likely happen in one million to 20 million years. Getty Why is this occurring in Northern Africa, specifically? An active continental rift ...