“This is the only place on Earth where you can study how continental rift becomes an oceanic rift,” Christopher Moore, a Ph.D. student at the University of Leeds, who uses satellite radar to monitor ...

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.

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 ...

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

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

Ocean Rift offers an educational VR experience of Earth's oceans as well as prehistoric seas. Beyond Blue provides a narrative adventure where players explore the ocean and interact with sea life.

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