A massive African superplume appears to be driving the divide of one of the world's largest continents. Here's what we know.

AFRICA is splitting apart – meaning the continent will form two separate land masses with an ocean in between in several million years, experts say. But the driving force behind the ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

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

Earth’s geological evolution is aslow but constant process, with tectonic movements driving significant changes over millions ...

Scientists Discover 117-Million-Year-Old Underwater Sediment Waves, Show How the Atlantic Ocean Formed The Atlantic Ocean today is a super hose of global weather, biodiversity, and commerce. However, ...

After Rodinia came Pangea. The separated continents came together again ... shifting rocks make actually drive the formation of mountain ranges—including the Himalayas, which formed some ...

At the center of this discovery is the Chugwater Formation in the ... once joined in Pangea, later broke apart and recombined to make the continents we live on today. During that period, large ...

It was found that the marble slab had formed at an age when all seven continents were part of a supercontinent called Pangea. The extraordinary formation was discovered in a marble quarry belonging to ...

While the mechanics of its formation are still largely theoretical, the idea behind such a large continent as Pangaea is not pure fantasy. The gradual accumulation of corroborating evidence over ...

Earth's continents to eventually merge into a ... rain and humidity trends for the future Pangea Ultima formation. To gauge what CO2 levels could be at that far in the future, those involved ...