Forget Atlantis — there’s a real underwater land mass hidden beneath the South Pacific, scientists say. In a new study, they identify it as a continent called Zealandia. The researchers say that the ...

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A group of geologists is making a new push to add an eighth continent to the accepted list, known as Zealandia. The scientists have been working for two decades gathering data to support their claim ...

If you thought discovering the 7 continents was a thing of centuries past, you'll be surprised to hear we misplaced an entire continent under the island of Mauritius. New data from crystals on the ...

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For much of modern geological history, the number of continents seemed fixed and unquestioned. Yet a mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific has disrupted that familiar picture. Zealandia, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These chunks joined to form a single mass of land due to Earth’s inner tectonic activity. This single supercontinent was named ...