7 continents of the world: The Earth consists of 71% and 29% of landmasses. These land masses are further divided into continents. The complicated geological process of plate tectonics led to the ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

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 how ...