Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...
Roughly 90 million years ago, climatic conditions in Antarctica were suitable for resin-producing trees. A team of ...
While Britain, Argentina, Australia, Norway, France, New Zealand and Chile have long held territorial claims over the vast ...
A landmass which was once home to up to half a million people has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia. The ...
If you went to school in the US or the UK, you probably learned that there are seven continents. But that number really depends on where you grew up. Elsewhere, you probably learned that there are ...
"What you're passing through on the Alps to Ocean trail is the story of Zealandia, the eighth continent of the world," says geoscientist Sasha Morriss. After Zealandia departed Gondwana for ...
A map shared to social media in mid-October 2024 accurately compared the size of Texas to Europe. The map shared online ...
Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...
Scientists think that the continent might break apart in the coming years ... considered one of the most tectonically active regions in the world. However, this crack was later attributed to a crevice ...
Bill Murphy from Grafton, is running The Great World Race from Nov. 15 to Nov. 21. The race consists of seven marathons, covering every continent over a single week. He hopes to raise $50,000 for ...
The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...