six and seven-continent responses around the world." While the U.S. teaches that there are seven continents, Europe teaches that there are only six, with North and South America counting as one ...

Scientists have warned that Africa is breaking apart faster than previously thought. A 35-mile-long fissure in Ethiopia’s desert emerged in 2005 but has since been widening at a rate of half an ...

Some very simple proof that the continents used to be connected is visible on a map of the world. Look at the map. Can you work out where the continents were connected? South America links ...

Dinosaurs are the extinct relatives of birds that roamed the lands and seas of ancient Earth. They first appeared around 240 ...

3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and tone of life on Earth. At the start of the period, dinosaurs ruled the loosening remnants of the ...

Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them ... A single mid-ocean ridge system connects the world's oceans, making the ridge the longest mountain range in the world.

The split will change the world's continental makeup. "Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and some parts of Ethiopia would form a new continent separated by the world's sixth ocean," said Metro. A change ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South America, a continent that has the world’s largest river by volume, the River Amazon; the longest mountain range, the Andes ...