David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental crust composed of granite or similar igneous rocks, forming the ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on ...

Forget what you learnt in elementary school geography, Earth apparently doesn’t have seven continents after all. From a young ...

Find out where the continent of Europe is located. The geography of North America Find out where the continent of North America is located. The geography of South America Find out where the ...

A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous ...

The history of Earth's continents might be different from what we first thought. The most popular theory of how the continents formed billions of years ago may not be right, according to a paper ...

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have not survived unscathed. Waves in the underlying layer known as the mantle can scour ...

Antarctica is shedding weight, allowing the continent to rise from the ocean somewhat like a once-squished sponge now free to expand again. That weight is its ice. The process is called post ...

"The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it." The study found that the majority of the fossil ...

F1 hints at potentially adding Rwanda as a future Grand Prix host in their effort to expand into new continents. Nov 18, 2023; Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; BWT Alpine F1 driver Pierre Gasly of France ...