A long-lost landmass, mostly hidden beneath the waves of the South Pacific Ocean, has taken a major step toward full ...

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Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, most of the remnants of a 2 million square mile lost continent known as Zealandia have fascinated scientists since 2017. Now, researchers from GNS Science in New ...

Seen from space, our planet has often been called a "blue marble." It's not, however, just the swirly white clouds that give Earth its marbled appearance. The continents: They are what complete the ...

An illustration provided to Reuters February 18, 2017 shows what geologists are calling Zealandia (C), a continent two-thirds the size of Australia lurking beneath the waves in the southwest Pacific.

Recent research suggests chunks of Zealandia, an eighth continent that disappeared under the Pacific Ocean, might be 1.3 billion years old.

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We’re all reminded from time to time that Earth’s tectonic plates are in constant flux. There was recent news, for example, that the odds of a San Andreas quake occurring between the Pacific and North ...

"This is not a sudden discovery, but a gradual realization." ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - A continent two-thirds the size of Australia has been found beneath the south-west Pacific Ocean, scientists reported in the journal of the Geological Society of America. The land ...