The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken heart," it is filled with solidified magma and lava.

A controversial new study suggests our geography textbooks should be rewritten. Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America ...

Scientifically speaking, this would mean North America and Europe could be classed as one, and not two continents.

Find out more about the continent of North America with this KS2 primary geography guide from BBC Bitesize.

Researchers from the University of Derby say that the break-up of the European and North American continents is still ongoing.

Hidden within North America is a long-forgotten continent once ruled by a bizarre cast of dinosaurs – but only a handful of fossils have ever been found.

There are 23 countries in North America. It is the third-largest in terms of area and fourth-most populous continent in the world. North America accounts for 7.5% of the world’s population.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below.

Historians rethink North America before colonization, American racial divisions over two centuries and a Persian Empire under steady duress.

Deinocheirus walks across a landscape dotted with ponds. Fossils found recently in eastern North America provide evidence that similar dinosaurs lived on our continent. Elena Duvernay / Stocktrek ...