Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

There aren’t seven continents, either ... The Stories Behind the Lines on Our Maps. “Its boundaries with Asia are mainly tiny ...

and it marked the official discovery of a new continent: Antarctica. It also cemented the modern idea, upheld by most maps across the English-speaking world, that there are seven major landmasses.

But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for that reason. The divide is pretty arbitrary, more culturally ...

The largest continent, Asia covers an area of 44.6 million square kilometres (17.2 million square miles) and has a staggering population of approximately 4.6 billion people. It is characterised by ...

Seven continents, 183.4 miles, 168 hours. That's the ultra-endurance adventure a Froedtert Hospital cancer surgeon is undertaking to kick off the new year. Dr. Clark Gamblin, 55, is one of an ...

When did modern humans reach each of the 7 continents? Using this information, scientists can map the distribution of species worldwide. In the late 1980s, scientist Norman Myers coined the term ...