Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

Today, computers and tablets show maps and aerial photographs ... This one shows all the countries of the world, almost 200, including the UK. It shows all seven continents, Europe, Africa ...

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

It was in this bubbling cauldron of magmatic activity that geologic forces created the world’s first continents ... to be true of chickens). “We show that these things may actually not ...

The rest of this continent lies beneath the waves, a new study suggests "I hope Zealandia will now start to appear on world maps which show the other continents," said Nick Mortimer, a geologist ...

Catalogued on his website, Colorado Plateau Geosystems, these maps show the world adrift, its landscapes breaking apart and reconnecting again in entirely new forms, where continents are as ...