A fter centuries of speculation, scientists have officially confirmed the existence of Zealandia, an enormous submerged continent that was lost to history for nearly 400 years.Spanning an ...

Occasionally, we find remnants of ancient continents. Scientists have been searching for one of these, called Argoland, for decades. They might have finally found it. When we talk about submerged ...

14 million year old bee fossil found on the ancient continent of Zealandia. Credit: Michael S. Engel and Uwe Kaulfuss The fossil was discovered at the Hindon Maar site, an exceptional paleontological ...

The current continents are also not the ones that always existed. For example, scientists recently mapped the completely submerged microcontinent of Zealandia, which is believed to have broken off ...

marking the oldest bee specimen ever recovered and the first of its kind found in the largely submerged continent of Zealandia. Discovered in the Hindon Maar Complex on New Zealand's South Island ...

This mostly underwater continent is geologically separate and distinct from Australia and Antarctica, and as highlighted by Mortimer and colleagues, should be treated as such. Basically, from a ...

The continent then became submerged under the ocean for millions of years before tectonic forces thrust New Zealand above the waves and the country’s current mountain-building phase began. Today, ...