The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper in ...

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 are ...

Far beneath the South Pacific, a continent the size of India has finally stepped out of the cartographic shadows. After centuries of speculation and decades of targeted surveys, scientists have now ...

Pangaea was one of the largest continents in world history, but now it's broken up. So which continent today is the largest, and which is the smallest? When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

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 ...

A vast, mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific, Zealandia, is now recognized as Earth's eighth continent. Recent mapping confirms its continental crust, scale, and ancient origins, challenging ...

Tim Johnson receives funding from Curtin University and through an Australian Research Council Discovery project (DP200101104). Earth is the only planet we know of with continents, the giant ...

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Legends of lost continents have always been fascinating and mysterious. They are full of stories about once majestic civilizations that disappeared under the water or were destroyed by cataclysms.