The world map is familiar sight on classroom walls and in atlases, but in terms of country and continent size, it’s way off – and all because of a 16th-century projection.

At the equator, however, the Coriolis force is essentially zero, making it impossible for a tropical system to cross over from one hemisphere to another.

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on South America, a continent that has the world’s largest river by volume, the River Amazon; the longest mountain range, the Andes; the ...

Imagine stepping back 200 million years into a world vastly different from the Earth we know today. During the age of dinosaurs, one colossal landmass, Pangaea, dominated the surface, surrounded by ...

The closest a tropical storm or hurricane has ever come to crossing the equator was Typhoon Vamei in December 2001 in the western Pacific, which got within 100 miles of the equator, forming at ...

New findings may have solved the debate around why scientists have never found the missing link between dinosaurs and ...

Ever since the first fragments of pterosaur bone surfaced nearly 250 years ago , palaeontologists have puzzled over one question: how did these close ...

An accurate map of the world, on 8 layers to aid editing. The map includes longitude at 30 degree intervals and major latitude lines such as the equator, the tropics and arctic and antarctic circles.

Simple vector illustration. World most important circles of latitudes and longitudes, gray map The world with most important circles of latitudes and longitudes, gray political map. Equator, Greenwich ...