"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Scientists know that the world’s continents emerged during the Archean eon, which stretched from about 4 ...

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

Forget what you learned in school—Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught ...

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, ...

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 in ...

Ancient Australian rocks suggest Earth’s continents formed later than expected and share a common origin with the Moon.

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Tulane University scientists, working with an international research team, have identified why some sections of the Earth’s crust remain stable while others fracture — a discovery that challenges long ...

One popular explanation for properties that result in dry land is unlikely according to new experiments The study, published today in Science, uses laboratory experiments to show that the ...

Diamonds can gush to the surface in violent eruptions. These eruptions have baffled scientists as they happen more often after continents break up. A new study provides an explanation, and it could ...

"... a pivotal event in our planet's history." This is an Inside Science story. Earth's first continents may have emerged from the oceans roughly 750 million years ...