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On average, it's the coldest, windiest, driest continent and has the highest average elevation of all the continents.
The Atlantic slave trade, occurring from the late 15th to the mid 19th century and spanning three continents, forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.
The skeleton is the transportation system of roads and railways, bridges and tunnels, air and seaports that enable our mobility across the continents.
The continents drifted.
It is older than any human artifact, older than life on Earth, older than the continents and the oceans between them.
Having lived in four continents, I've always been interested in this question.
Now, there's no way a three-inch-long freshwater cavefish can swim across the Indian Ocean, so what we found when we compared the DNA of these species is that they've been separated for more than 100 million years, or about the time that the southern continents were last together.
It's the continents that moved them.
And the case is the same for the other continents as well.
So we're going to immerse ourselves in the 72 percent of the planet because, you know, it's really naive to think that the Easter Bunny put all the resources on the continents.
We want to discover completely new continents, and gaze at magnificent vistas of ignorance.
Why not? (Applause) So I started a festival called WOW, Women of the World, seven years ago, and it's now in 20 countries across five continents.
The continents move apart.
And a passion for birds should especially matter for Africa and all Africans, because among all other continents, Africa hosts some of the most amazing bird species you can find anywhere in the world.
Over a million kilometers of cable crisscross our ocean floors to link the continents— that’s enough to wind around the Equator nearly thirty times.
Flamingos covered continents.
You can see, well, you can, kind of pick out all the major continents, but that's about it.
You can think of the Earth's biosphere as a palace, and the continents are rooms in the palace, and the islands are small rooms.
Because these witch hunts occurred sporadically over centuries and continents the specifics varied considerably.
In fact, Chinese food is the most pervasive food on the planet, served on all seven continents, even Antarctica, because Monday night is Chinese food night at McMurdo Station, which is the main scientific station in Antarctica.
And so my work, really, is trying to understand the character of that Mesozoic radiation compared to the Cenozoic radiation to see what mysteries we can understand from dinosaurs and from other animals about what life on drifting continents really can tell us about evolution.
Most of those missing puzzle pieces are southern continents, because it was those continents that are least explored.
I've been to some of those continents, but Africa was, in the words of Steven Pinker, was a blank slate, largely.
They did it within two or three degrees of the pole, to maintain similarity between continents.
But when they were divided, indeed they were divided, and we do see the continents carving differences among dinosaurs.
And ultimately we can control the branching to mimic what we think the continents were like, and run it a thousand times, so we can estimate the parameters, to answer the question whether we are on the mark or not, at least to know the barriers of the problems.
We're on in five continents, dude!
It's a project that now reaches across three continents, and its roots go into the fields of mathematics, marine biology, feminine handicraft and environmental activism.
I was part of a collaborative scientific effort that spanned a dozen institutions across three continents that came together and solved this problem.
And so far, we've documented garbage from 58 different countries and territories on six continents, all washing ashore in this paradise in Mexico.
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