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.

Australia might not be as far away as it used to be because the entire continent has moved 1.5 meters (4.9 feet) since 1994, according to Reuters. How did this happen? Tectonic shifts are the reason.

An curved arrow pointing right. Tectonic activity is shifting Australia northward, messing with GPS-run technology and pushing scientists to update the continent's coordinates. Produced by Noah ...

Over two hundred fifty million years ago, India, Africa, Australia ... look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic plates like people on an escalator.

Different plate tectonic settings produce distinctive basin environments where ... New ocean floor is generated at the diverging boundary, and the edges of the now-split continents get farther apart.

Though he didn’t find Zealandia, he encountered the Māori, who hinted at the existence of a massive landmass, setting the stage for future discovery. Unlike any other continent, 94% of ...

Back then, all the major continents formed one giant supercontinent ... Whatever drives the movement, plate tectonic activity takes place at four types of boundaries: divergent boundaries ...