The three cartographers created the Equal Earth map in response to public schools in Boston adopting another map, the Gall-Peter map projection, to depict the true sizes of the continents in 2017.

There were other clues as well; matching rocks and fossils were found in countries separated by the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Tropical plant fossils were also found in southern polar regions (and ...

This article was originally published on Nov. 3, 2016. Our maps have been lying to us for centuries. The standard classroom maps we all learned geography from are based on the Mercator projection, a ...

Geologists confirmed the existence of a hidden continent named Zealandia beneath the South Pacific Ocean. Covering ...

The popular map projection, which is also used by Google, shows the continents and countries in disproportionate sizes IT'S been revealed that the world map we've used for centuries doesn't ...

Scientists confirm Zealandia, Earth's eighth continent, submerged almost two million square miles, with only 5% above water.

By Matt Kaplan The world is split up into continents ... But are there really seven continents? Anyone with a map can see that Asia and Europe are connected. They are often called Eurasia for ...

Although everyone learns that the Earth is neatly divided into seven continents (at least for now ... and writes/edits about sci-fi and how our world works. You can find his previous stuff ...