Earth's Continents Have Been Mangled and Torn Apart over the Last 250 Million Years. Here's How Published May 09, 2019 at 5:00 AM EDT Updated May 09, 2019 at 5:07 AM EDT ...

Ever since we discovered Earth was round, mapmakers have struggled to create a map that accurately shows our planet in 2D. Most notably, Africa always ends up appearing far smaller than it ...

Most continents are more than just their cratons, so we know that the continents didn't form all at once in the early history of the Earth. You can check out a map of the world's cratons below to get ...

Late last year, scientists in New Zealand announced that they had created the most thorough map of any continent on planet Earth. For decades, the geologists had dug up and analyzed countless rock ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa ...

Earth has eight continents, and world maps should reflect this, geologists say. The eighth, a lost continent called Zealandia, isn't a huge landmass that geographers have somehow missed. Rather ...

The claim: Antarctica is a wall hiding 20 more continents. A Feb. 10 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) shows renderings of Earth, maps and mountains of ice and snow.“What if Antarctica ...

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 ...

Most continents are more than just their cratons, so we know that the continents didn’t form all at once in the early history of the Earth. You can check out a map of the world’s cratons below ...