Experts monitoring the gap say the deepening crack will eventually separate from the rest of the continent as water emerges, effectively reshaping the world map ... of the Atlantic Ocean if ...

New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

Researchers previously believed the split would ... waters of the Indian Ocean would come in and flood what is now the East African Rift Valley,' Macdonald said. Macdonald added that the new ocean ...

However, deep below the surface of Africa, researchers have discovered that the forces deep beneath Africa are making the continent split apart ... formation of the Atlantic Ocean millions ...

Vast stretches of Russian coast have been tarred by heavy fuel oil from two freighters that foundered in a storm.

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Discover what the prehistoric world was like and how it changed between when dinosaurs ... This was the birth of the North Atlantic Ocean. At the end of the Triassic Period there was a mass extinction ...

I clearly recall the factoid from high school geography, that Iceland was purposefully deceptively named and is actually ...

Africa is broken. It is being dissected by the famous East African Rift which extends over a length of 5000 km along the eastern side of Africa and seems poised to destroy Africa as we know it.

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