A hidden “tear” beneath the continents may have been fueling oceanic volcanoes for millions of years, study reveals.

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, most of the remnants of a 2 million square foot lost continent known as Zealandia have fascinated scientists since 2017. Now, researchers from GNS Science in New ...

What is a continent when over 94 percent of it is under the water? Zealandia is an extensive belt of continental crust around ...

An illustration provided to Reuters February 18, 2017 shows what geologists are calling Zealandia (C), a continent two-thirds the size of Australia lurking beneath the waves in the southwest Pacific.

Newly released maps of Zealandia, a massive sunken landmass many have argued should be classified as Earth's eighth continent, are revealing the topography of this underwater land in unprecedented ...

The map of Earth looks settled at first glance. Continents feel fixed, named, and counted. Yet over the past few decades, ...

For most people, continents are Earth’s seven main large landmasses. But geoscientists have a different take on this. They look at the type of rock a feature is made of, rather than how much of its ...

EVER since Wegener published in 1915 his remarkable theory of the drift of the continents and the movement of the poles, most of us have viewed a map of the world with entirely different eyes, and it ...

We’re all reminded from time to time that Earth’s tectonic plates are in constant flux. There was recent news, for example, that the odds of a San Andreas quake occurring between the Pacific and North ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, most of the remnants of a 2 million square mile lost continent known as Zealandia have fascinated scientists since 2017. Now, researchers from GNS Science in New ...