From Atlantis to Terra Australis, history is full of maps showing continents that never existed. These aren’t fantasy—they ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...

Odd cartographic creations like ‘Fool’s Cap Map of the World,’ ‘Leo Belgicus,’ and ‘The Porcineograph’ make the classic Mercator Projection look outright dull.

When Portugal Ruled the Seas The country’s global adventurism in the 16th century linked continents and cultures as never before, as a new exhibition makes clear ...

EVER since Wegener published in 1915 his remarkable theory of the drift of the continents and the movement of the poles, most of us have viewed a map of the world with entirely different eyes, and ...

NASA 's ambitious DAVINCI mission, launching in the early 2030s, aims to uncover the mysteries of Venus, particularly whether this scorching neighbour once harboured oceans and continents.

Nasa's ambitious Davinci mission, set to launch in the early 2030s, aims to unravel the mysteries of Venus and investigate whether Earth's scorching neighbour once harbored oceans and continents.

The visualization shows two continents that are very different from each other. A new map shows what the Red Planet would look like if it were 71 percent water, which is roughly the case on Earth.