The discovery of buried "mud waves" off the coast of western Africa reveals that the Atlantic Ocean was born at least 4 million years earlier than scientists previously thought.These waves, each ...

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Around 10,000 years ago, as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up—with a little help ...

Oceans are the large, linked bodies of saltwater that have approximately 71% of the surface area on Earth and contribute ...

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

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

A new study gives alarming glimpse into the future, as some scientists warn these currents could be just decades from ...

Millions of years from now, Northern Africa could be home to a new ocean as tectonic plates pull ... the San Andreas fault sits between the North American plate, which is sliding south, and ...

Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa ... ago due to the mid-Atlantic ridge. The outlet noted that this particular tectonic boundary — formed by the North American and Eurasian ...