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 ...

On top of that, Wegener learned that related species, too small to swim the oceans, were found on different continents, as were similar fossils. In 1912 he proposed that the continents we know ...

"With the continent dividing at a rate of half an ... a species will survive for long enough to witness it? Well, that's a different story." Devika Rao has worked as a staff writer at The Week ...

Some globes show how the land is divided into different countries - around 200 of them. Antarctica is a special case. The continent contains no countries, instead it is governed under a 1959 ...