Scientists are predicting that Earth's eighth continent could develop a lot sooner than initially thought. We'll be long dead ...

In tens of millions of years, hundreds of miles of this rift could be covered in water, this ocean has already been named the Afar. Importance: Witnessing the birth of a new ocean. Dive category ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

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 ...