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

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.

this new world map is not only the most accurate ever created, but it actually showcases the proper size of the landmasses and continents that make up our planet. The Equal Earth World Map builds ...

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack ... This keeps the continents in decent shape while causing the oceans to appear smaller, and cutting off half of Australia and all of ...

“Anything big enough to change the map of the world is important ... the two land masses as separate continents? Or are they still one? Then there is New Zealand, which really wrecks things ...

New modeling from researchers at Curtin ... the Atlantic and Indian oceans ultimately formed as the slow rifting of continents created the world map we know today. What we now refer to as the ...

It was in this bubbling cauldron of magmatic activity that geologic forces created the world’s first continents ... the first subduction zones? In a new paper published last week in the journal ...