New research suggests Earth may have six continents, not seven, with North America and Europe still connected.

It shows all seven continents, Europe ... so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years. They used to be hand-drawn to scale ...

If you are looking at a traditional world map, you won't get an accurate idea of the size of the seven continents; depicting a sphere onto a flat surface means that something will end up distorted.

There aren’t seven continents, either ... “Anything big enough to change the map of the world is important,” Nick Mortimer, a geologist with the New Zealand government-owned GNS Science ...