Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it now stands beside Africa, Asia and the rest as a full-fledged continent.

Scientists at the University of Southampton have answered one of the most puzzling questions in plate tectonics: how and why "stable" parts of continents gradually rise to form some of the planet's ...

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Researchers have discovered a hidden continent on Earth, but it's not Atlantis. They found it while reconstructing the evolution of Mediterranean region's complex geology, which rises with mountain ...

Everyone knows that the earth has seven continents: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. However, scientists have recently uncovered another continent hidden ...

A team of scientists has uncovered what may be one of the largest hidden geological structures on Earth — a continent-sized "megastructure" buried deep beneath Antarctica. It's so massive, in fact, ...

The 'hidden' continent of Zealandia is being partially mapped, thanks to a deepwater mapping expedition led by The University of Queensland in collaboration with Schmidt Ocean Institute. The ...

Nick Mortimer et al., GSA Today, v. 27, doi: 10.1130/GSATG321A.1. Most of us view the continents and oceans as discrete entities of land and water across Earth's surface. However, even a cursory look ...