Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before ...

Most of us learned the same list in school: seven continents, give or take a geography teacher’s preference for merging ...

Forget Atlantis — there’s a real underwater land mass hidden beneath the South Pacific, scientists say. In a new study, they identify it as a continent called Zealandia. The researchers say that the ...

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Zealandia was discovered in 2017, but the actual discovery started in 1642 by a Dutch sailor, Abel Tasman. The planet Earth has more hidden gems than we know, as we see another continent in the list, ...

If you thought discovering the 7 continents was a thing of centuries past, you'll be surprised to hear we misplaced an entire continent under the island of Mauritius. New data from crystals on the ...

Africa holds a truly unique place on the world map. It is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres, the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western. No other continent shares this ...

On 14 February 2017, the Geological Society of America published a feature by a team of New Zealand geologists in the journal GSA Today about the classification of a block continental rock largely ...