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A hidden continent existed under Greenland's ice. Scientists found this lost continental fragment. It is called the Davis ...

Beneath the turquoise waters of the South Pacific hides a massive secret—Zealandia, a sunken landmass stretching nearly two ...

Despite being almost entirely underwater, Zealandia meets all the geological criteria to be classified as a continent.

Deep beneath the surface of our planet, from the Himalayas to East Africa and from the Atlantic seafloor to the Indian Ocean, ...

Zealandia is a geological outlier. It is by far the largest submerged continent and also the smallest recognized continent ...

The deep roots of Earth's oldest continents have long been thought to be unshakable. But a new seismic discovery suggests that even these stable landmasses can change. Beneath the center of North ...

Earth has had more continents than the ones we see today—some have completely disappeared! These lost continents, like ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a landscape with incredible geology. She hears a lot of the same suggestions: ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in continents. The research shows this fingerprint existed in Earth’s first ...