She handed out a blank map, and gave her students simple instructions: Identify Europe, Asia, South America and Africa. "The results were really mind-opening to me," she said.

Fossils Help Scientists Identify a ‘Lost’ Continent Millions of years ago, a giant island called Balkanatolia shifted and connected Asia to Europe, allowing animals to migrate ...

“Labeling and identifying part of the Earth as a continent, even a small, thin and submerged one, is more informative than just leaving a map blank.” This creates problems for numbering ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South America, a continent that has the world’s largest river by volume, the River Amazon; the longest mountain range, the Andes; the ...

A group of researchers argues that the submerged landmass underneath New Zealand qualifies as a continent. But not everyone’s convinced. Satellite image of New Zealand.