Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in ...

Even the criteria used to define a continent is fraught, with some geologists arguing for the existence of “Zealandia” and ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...

One sunny spot in the southern hemisphere is both the smallest continent in the world and a country in its own right.

Beneath the waves of the South Pacific lies Zealandia, a submerged landmass spanning nearly two million square miles. Often ...

Extreme temperatures in future may potentially lead to the first mass extinction on Earth since the dinosaurs, a new study ...

A new study predicts a grim future for humanity as Earth's continents drift towards forming a supercontinent. This will lead ...

The extremely rare Indian purple frog doesn’t really look like a frog. It’s also a living fossil that’s been around since ...

The continent is also a country - but there are often misconceptions about the region it's a part of and how it's defined.

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 ...