Millions of years ago, the continents were all bunched together in a landmass named Pangea. Millions of years from now, ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

The Red Sea and Gulf of Aden may fill the rift. The Afar region could become ocean floor one day. This rift may lead to Africa’s sixth ocean in time. Geophysicist Ken Macdonald says East Africa ...

The Atlantic Ocean may have formed millions of years earlier than previously thought, igniting a period of climate change, scientists found.

Also known as "volcano snails," these gastropods grow a suit of metal-enriched scaly armor and have an enormous heart, which helps them survive in oxygen-poor water in the deep ocean.

The basins that flooded in the final rifting of South America and Africa were rich in carbon, and the birth of the ocean would have made the sequestering of carbon less efficient. This reduced ...

Upon becoming dormant, the phytoplankton cells sink to the bottom of the ocean, where they're gradually buried under accumulating layers of sediment. These latest specimens were extracted from ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, scientists say. Experts have long known that portions of the ...