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 ...

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 ...

If Iceland is part of a submerged continent, Earth’s continental map may need a dramatic update—potentially changing science textbooks forever. Where is Athena? A mysterious private moon ...

Geoscientists have confirmed Zealandia, a continent hiding in plain sight for nearly 375 years. Covering 1.89 million square miles, it lay submerged beneath the waves, sparking excitement and ...

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, ...