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.

that Europeans were thought to have confirmed the continental nature of the New World. And yet here, in a book published in 1507, were references to a large world map that showed a new ...

Little is known about the recently discovered continent ... a team of geologists from all over the world have compiled a new geological map containing Zealandia. The map was formed using a ...