Australia is not only the smallest continent but also Earth's largest island. But the land Down Under wasn't always so isolated; it was once part of a bigger supercontinent. So when did Australia ...

About 155 million years ago, the continent of Argoland broke off from its home, the supercontinent Gondwana, drifted to the northwest, and — confoundingly — disappeared. What happened to this lost ...

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 ...

Australia has lost another native mammal, the Christmas Island shrew, officially declared extinct. This tiny insect-eating ...

Jan. 24 (UPI) --Earth's continents are like a jigsaw puzzle that's constantly being rearranged. Sometimes, during the reshuffling, pieces get misplaced. According to scientists at Curtin University in ...

Buzzfeed (David Mack) has the story, quoting the original e-mail from the instructor; students were asked to write a report comparing a social norm in the U.S. with that in another country, the ...