Students in the United States learn early on that Earth’s seven continents include: But this isn’t a worldwide consensus. The ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young age, we’re taught that the world is made up of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ...

Geologists disagree on how many continents Earth has, with answers ranging from two to nine. Europe and Asia are visibly connected, as are the Americas, making their dividing lines cultural rather ...

Microbes, including bacteria and fungi, travel in high-altitude winds, crossing continents. Study identified 266 fungi and ...

One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' ...

At that time, Earth didn't have seven continents, but instead one giant one surrounded by a single ocean called Panthalassa. The explanation for Pangaea's formation ushered in the modern theory of ...

Roughly 233 million years ago, Earth’s continents were fused into one massive landmass, and life as we know it was on the ...