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, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we know today. These continents aren’t going to stay in place forever, however. A ...

By Julian James The emergence of this new ocean is tied to the gradual movement of tectonic plates. The African, Arabian, and Somali plates are drifting apart, creating the East African Rift—a ...