Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

If you've seen a world map or travelled to Australia then you'll know just how far away it is from other continents - but ...

This continent is drifting northward at 7 cm per year, prompting updates in mapping systems to keep up with its changing ...

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

Africa is splitting into two continents due to tectonic forces reshaping the Earth beneath our feet. This video explores the ...

Scientists believe that the motion of Earth's continents through plate tectonics has been largely steady over millions of years. New research, however, suggests this drift can speed up or slow down ...

Continental drift and the more recent science of plate ... But in Wegener’s day, geological thinking stood firmly on a solid earth where continents and oceans were permanent features.

Did the continents begin to drift apart some 200 million years ago? Some scientists believe so, and many recent findings support them. This month still more compelling evidence of continental ...

He claimed the lands separated 250 million years ago by the process of continental drift, which means the continents just slowly fractured and went their separate ways. But simply drifting apart ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age drew to a close, the drifting of the continent of North America, and spreading in the Atlantic Ocean, may have temporarily sped up -- with a little help ...