You’ve seen politics and national borders change all the time, but have you ever witnessed a continent literally breaking ...

(FrankRamspott/E+/Getty Images) Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought. An active rift has reached a "critical threshold" and will soon break ...

Scientists are observing one of Earth's most dramatic long-term geological processes unfolding beneath eastern Africa, where the continent is gradually splitting apart along an active tectonic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The African continent will one day break in two, with a new ocean filling the void between the separation, scientists say.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A shot of the Main Ethiopian Rift, taken at Boset Volcano in Ethiopia. - Courtesy Prof. Thomas Gernon/University of Southampton ...

The desert floor in Ethiopia looks fixed and ancient, but it is moving. Across the Afar region and down the East African Rift, the African continent is being pulled apart by forces deep below the ...

It'll take tens of millions of years, but Africa may eventually split into two parts. While geologists have known about this possibility for a while, it became news recently when a large crack, ...

(CNN) — Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for ...

Christian Rowan - PHOTO: Late Miocene fossil-bearing strata of Lothagam in West Turkana. The African continent will one day break in two, with a new ocean filling the void between the separation, ...