For much of modern geological history, the number of continents seemed fixed and unquestioned. Yet a mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific has disrupted that familiar picture. Zealandia, ...

Numerous scientists have ended up discovering a shocking fact that the continent Africa is now in the process of splitting into two continents which is an extremely dramatic geological event occurring ...

(FrankRamspott/E+/Getty Images) Geologists have discovered that the African continent will split apart sooner than we thought ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...