In the city of Atyrau, the Ural River forms the conventional boundary between Europe and Asia. Bridges and pedestrian ...

In northeast Ethiopia, the rift shoved continental plates apart by 25 feet in just a few days, completely shocking ...

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The African continent is undergoing a geological transformation that, in the distant future, could create a new ocean. Researchers studying the East African Rift System have observed the tectonic ...

A group of scientists say in new research that matching dinosaur tracks found in modern-day Brazil and Cameroon were made 120 million years ago in... Matching dinosaur prints were found an ocean apart ...

In January 1912, German geophysicist Alfred Wegener proposed an idea the scientific world thought was wack. After scrutinizing similar-looking fossils of plants and animals on different land masses, ...

For a long stretch of Earth’s history, the continents were not separated by wide oceans. They were joined into a single landmass known as Pangaea. It formed slowly, through collisions that took place ...

Tens of millions of years ago, South America and Africa were part of the same land mass, an ancient supercontinent called Gondwana. At some point, the two continents we now know started to pull away ...