A country is a smaller unit of land mass which is part of a continent. There are seven continents in total with Asia being the largest one. However there is one continent which is also a country and ...

What happened to Argoland, the continent that broke off western Australia 155 million years ago? Geologists at Utrecht University have now managed to reconstruct the history of the lost continent. As ...

Scientists recently published new ideas about why Earth’s toughest, oldest continents persist. These continents, known as cratons, have been on earth for more than two billion years. Andrew Zuza, an ...

Scientists have pieced together the remnants of a continent that broke off from western Australia 155 million years ago and seemingly vanished as it drifted northward toward Southeast Asia. When you ...

Researchers have discovered a hidden continent on Earth, but it's not Atlantis. They found it while reconstructing the evolution of Mediterranean region's complex geology, which rises with mountain ...

Argoland, once part of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana, was long thought to be lost. But scientists recently discovered it splintered apart in Southeast Asia. The lost continent may have broken ...

Zealandia broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana millions of years ago then sank. It's hard to study an underwater landmass, but researchers say they've created a complete map. Studying ...

A chunk of land that broke off from Australia 155 million years ago seemed to have vanished. Seven years of research helped scientists trace the landmass back to Southeast Asia. It could help explain ...

Australia is not only the smallest continent but also Earth's largest island. But the land Down Under wasn't always so isolated; it was once part of a bigger supercontinent. So when did Australia ...

Our chief Africa reporter was wary of journalism that made broad predictions about the continent, but a statistic made clear that staggering change was approaching. By Declan Walsh Declan Walsh first ...