Scientists uncover hidden land under Iceland, questioning our understanding of Earth's continents and tectonic plates.

For centuries, we have been taught that there are seven continents, but new research has suggested there are actually only ...

New study questions whether the continents, North America and Europe, ever completely split apart tens of millions of years ...

Study Suggests Earth Has Only Six Continents and Not Seven; 'The North American and European Plates Have Not Officially Broken Up' Examinations of a strip of land stretching from Greenland through ...

4 min read There are a few handfuls of major plates and dozens of smaller, or minor, plates. Six of the majors are named for the continents embedded within them, such as the North American ...

This vast fault system offers critical insights into the formation of North America’s lithosphere ... of a single suture zone, where two tectonic plates collided and fused 72 to 56 million ...

Eagle-eyed geologist Mark Tingay recently noticed the emergence of a ‘ghost island’ in November of 2024, caused by a submarine mud volcano called Kumani Bank. Satellites show that the island formed 15 ...

It is made up of large slabs called tectonic plates. The plates fit together like ... mountains that are still growing - like in South America’s Andes, or the world’s tallest mountain, Everest ...