8th continent? Yes, you read that correctly. The hottest news in geological circles lately is the potential of the planet’s newest, eighth continent: Zealandia. It is a giant jigsaw piece of the ...

It’s official: A 3-billion-year-old “lost continent” lurks beneath the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, new research confirms. Sparkly, iridescent flecks of rocks known as zircons from Mauritius date ...

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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 ...