Continents are political—realms are biological. These 7 divisions tell a deeper story about evolution, isolation, and the ...

Olympic rings are supposed to represent every continent in the world and according to our modern studies, there are more than five continents, and therefore people are surprised to see just 5 ...

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers suggest North America and Eurasia might be connected ...

South America is a continent of breathtaking landscapes, ranging from the Amazon Rainforest, the world's largest tropical rainforest, to the Andes Mountains, the longest mountain range on Earth.

It wasn't until 1912 that meteorologist Alfred Wegener hypothesized that Earth's continents had once been joined as a supercontinent that we now call Pangea. Wegener had noticed that the borders of ...

Scientists have detected deep pulses in the Earth beneath Africa – and it could tear the continent apart. The pulses are made ...

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, there ...

Beneath the South Pacific Ocean lies a microcontinent that was hidden for over 300 years. Zealandia, which separated from Australia millions of years ago and was once Earth's eighth continent, is ...