After 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 incredible 1 ...

Zealandia is a new and mostly submerged continent off the coast of New Zealand. The discovery started with offshore oil drilling in the 1960s. A UN treaty that gave drilling rights to continental ...

For geologists, a continent is a large area of thick continental ... A team of geologists coming from New Zealand, New Caledonia, Australia, the U.S., Denmark and Tasmania compiled a new ...

In 2017, scientists were proven correct about their suspicions of an eighth continent, when they found evidence for a big underwater mass of land linked to New Zealand. New maps have taught us ...

A vast landmass that was once home to 500,000 people has been discovered off the coast of Australia. Now submerged, the ...

Unlike any other continent, 94% of Zealandia is underwater. This submerged wonder remained elusive for centuries, with only a few islands—like New Zealand—breaking the ocean’s surface to ...