Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The exhibition of world maps at the British Library in 2016 outlined the evolution of the world map, ... This map depicted continents such as Africa, Asia, and Europe, ...

These images come from Ron Blakey's maps of the paleotectonic evolution of North America. The first map shows the land 510 million years ago, progressing from there—reading left to right, top to ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the ...

Zealandia, a submerged landmass in the Pacific, is considered the world's eighth continent. Named in 1995 and confirmed as a continent in 2017, it separated from Gondwana millions of years ago.

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 ...

See, the world maps we’ve been using for centuries don’t show the most accurate appearance of the landmasses, either. But the Equal Earth World Map is changing that.

This attempt at creating a faithful world map took a similar tack to the Sinusoidal by pulling out the edges of the map to mimic a sphere. The Robinson isn’t as extreme, however, taking the form of a ...