This isn’t just another crack in the earth. It has the power to change global maps, reshape political borders, and give rise to Earth’s sixth ocean. What may seem like a localized rift is, in ...

About 140 million years ago, Africa and South America started to break apart, and rifts formed along weak points that already existed. Tectonic shifts caused magma from the mantle of the Earth to move ...

His turf lies below the surface of Earth in the limestone caves of South Africa's Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO World Heritage site about 50 kilometers (30 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.