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 ...

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Most people know that the land masses on which we all live represent just 30% of Earth's surface, and the rest is covered by oceans. The emergence of the continents was a pivotal moment in the history ...

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 ...