Geography says continent. Culture says island. Biology tells a very different story. Australia's place on the map depends on ...

A new simulation reveals how Australia's first inhabitants migrated across Sahul, before it became modern-day Australia.

After hundreds of years of speculation, scientists have finally mapped out Earth's "lost" eighth continent, Zealandia.

Among the seven continents, Australia is the smallest, spanning over 8 million square kilometers, according to National Geographic.

Recent earth science developments suggest that how we count our planet’s largest land masses is less clear than we learned in school.

The discovery of this landmass in 2017 completely overthrew the seven-continent model with the long-lost land to the southeast of Australia.

A college student received a failing grade from an instructor who told her that Australia was a continent, not a country. What's False The grade was for one assignment, was later amended, and the ...