There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on how ...

PORT ANGELES — You’ve heard of Dances With Wolves? Port Angeles’ Bruce Skinner can say he has gone Mud-Bogging with Penguins. After traveling nearly 10,000 miles and fighting through gut-churning seas ...

The world is divided into seven continents: Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Oceania (which includes Australia and New Zealand), and Antarctica. Each continent is unique in its ...

Scientists have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why 'stable' parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's greatest topographic features.

Beneath Antarctica's millions of square miles of ice, beneath the snow thousands of feet thick, sits dirt and rock like every other continent. In fact, scientists now say they've discovered a ...

Late last year, scientists in New Zealand announced that they had created the most thorough map of any continent on planet Earth. For decades, the geologists had dug up and analyzed countless rock ...

Some countries are geographically positioned in such a way that their continuous landmass stretches across two different continents, placing them in a unique category known as contiguous ...