Scientists estimate it will take at least 5 to 10 million years for the Afar region to be fully submerged. When that happens, ...

An ocean may in time develop from a rift in the Afar Triangle, in the Horn of Africa which will be close to America.

In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...

The Zagros Mountains, stretching over 1,500 kilometers from eastern Turkey to southeastern Iran towards the Gulf of Oman, are ...

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

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

‘What might happen is that the waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,’ Ken Macdonald, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, ...