Earth might not have seven continents after all. From an early age, most of us are taught to recognize seven continents: ...

to show all or part of the Earth’s curved surface on a flat surface. The Mercator map projection is used widely for navigation, but it distorts the size of countries and continents. For example ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. For geologists, a continent is a large area ... and Tasmania compiled a new geological map using a combination of rock samples ...