A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space. The photo has been changed so we can see all of the earth’s surface in one picture. The Pacific Ocean is the world’s largest ocean.

Roughly 250 million years ago, traveling from present-day Australia to North America would have been surprisingly simple-a ...

While the actual dramatic split and creation of a new continent and ocean are at least a million years away and we'll all ...

Between these continents lies the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a site which acts as a dividing line between the two plates. The area is vast - extending 10,000 miles from the Arctic Ocean to the southern ...

The Geological Society of London says of Africa’s severing: ‘Today the EAR remains above sea level however in the future, as ...

The Pacific Ocean is disappearing ... Earth consists of seven continents with widely different ecosystems and human cultures, so it would be fascinating to think what the world might look like ...

"Oceans Are the Real Continents" - whose very title nudges audiences to reimagine how it is we understand the geography of the world around us - is guided by a similar type of conviction.

During this period, oceans formed as land shifted and broke out of one big supercontinent into smaller ones. 3 min read Continents were on the move in the Cretaceous, busy remodeling the shape and ...

“Oceans Are the Real Continents” — whose very title nudges audiences to reimagine how it is we understand the geography of the world around us — is guided by a similar type of convictio ...

Earth once just had one continent known as Pangea that slowly broke apart to form the continents we know today.