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Ocean Rift offers an educational VR experience of Earth's oceans as well as prehistoric seas. Beyond Blue provides a narrative adventure where players explore the ocean and interact with sea life.

Continents aren't torn apart without warning, and oceans certainly aren't created out of the blue. Instead, these changes are announced millions of years before they're actually achieved, by the ...

A series of slowly widening fissures in southern Ethiopia once again drew the attention of scientists and authorities to one ...

This rift is slowly pulling the African continent apart, and over millions of years, it could isolate the eastern portion of ...