This video identifies the seven continents and five oceans of the Earth, and also where the Equator, Northern and Southern Hemispheres and the North and South Poles are located on the planet.

Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. The first period of the history of the Earth was known as the Hadean Period which lasted ...

Over the past 20 years, scientists have observed a widespread shift in the color of our oceans, signaling big changes beneath ...

A photo of the earth and its oceans taken from space ... The Pacific Ocean stretches from the continents of Asia and Oceania on the east, to North and South America on the west.

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 ...

Another telltale hint that Earth's continents were all one land mass ... This would involve the Atlantic and Indian oceans closing up and joining the Americas to Europe and Africa, eventually ...

Its thickness varies greatly from place to place, with some regions even lacking a D" layer altogether—much like continents rise above the Earth's oceans. These intriguing variations have ...

Ancient, expansive tracts of continental crust called cratons have helped keep Earth's continents stable for billions of years, even as landmasses shift, mountains rise and oceans form. A new ...

But the shifted continents, expanded coasts, and widened oceans had cooled and moistened ... from within was perhaps too much for many of Earth's species to handle. Long before the carnage began ...

Emerging evidence suggests that plate tectonics, or the recycling of Earth's crust, may have begun much earlier than ...