And millions of years in the future, there may be a new continent — because Africa is splitting. Indeed, scientists have known for the past two decades that Africa is gradually splitting apart.

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

Africa is dividing in two, and a new landmass and ocean ... were once a giant landmass known as Pangea, which then split off into the continents we know today. Only recently, scientists mapped ...

Just when you thought you had seen or heard it all, and then bam! Africa is splitting into two continents. The splitting of Africa will create a new ocean, the sixth one. Unfortunately, we will not ...

Africa is slowly tearing itself in two. Scientists predict that this seismic split, currently in its infancy, will one day divide the continent into two separate landmasses. While this ...

But every now and again something dramatic happens and leads to renewed questions about the African continent splitting in two. The Earth’s lithosphere (formed by the crust and the upper part of ...

The process of Africa splitting into two continents is due to a geological phenomenon known as continental rifting. This process is occurring along the East African Rift System (EARS), which is a ...

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

The splitting of South America and Africa saw an outburst of 16 million cubic kilometres of magma, which can still be found as volcanic rocks on both continents and the Atlantic Ocean’s sea floor.

RW Johnson says that Africa’s unity is a myth, and suggests that Balkanisation, not integration, may be the path to peace and prosperity.

What roils beneath Earth's surface may feel a world away, but the activity can help forge land masses that dictate ocean circulation, climate patterns, and even animal activity and evolution. In fact, ...