This video reconstructs Pangaea, the massive supercontinent that existed around 200 million years ago, showing how today’s ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...

Continents seem like a simple concept, but their definition is far more complicated than most people realize. Different countries and scientific perspectives divide the world in different ways, ...

Across the planet, water makes up 71% of Earth’s surface. The remaining space is covered by land — continents and islands. Before Earth’s land formed the seven continents in the present day, all the ...

The Earth formed approximately 4.6 billion years ago, according to National Geographic. If the world was captured all those years ago, the land masses would’ve been structured completely different to ...