'Icelandia' was lost to the sea 10 million years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Iceland may be the last exposed remnant of ...

An international team of geologists believe they have found a hidden continent that could stretch from Greenland to Europe. The team, led by Professor Gillian Foulger, Emeritus Professor of Geophysics ...

For decades, students around the world have memorized the same geography lesson: seven continents, split cleanly by oceans and plate boundaries. But new research out of the University of Derby is ...

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school. By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents, there are ...

Academics believe they have identified a remarkable geological secret: A sunken continent hidden under Iceland and the surrounding ocean,which they have dubbed "Icelandia." An international team of ...

In between North American and Eurasian tectonic plates, Iceland’s Silfra fissure is one of the world’s most famous dive sites. Silfra was formed by an earthquake ...

Disregard what you learned in geography class—Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized the same lineup: Africa, ...