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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 ...

On 14 February 2017, the Geological Society of America published a feature by a team of New Zealand geologists in the journal GSA Today about the classification of a block continental rock largely ...

The coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth was minus 128.56 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 89.2 degrees Celsius), registered on July 21, 1983, at Antarctica's Vostok station. The Dry Valleys of ...

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 ...

Africa holds a truly unique place on the world map. It is the only continent that lies in all four hemispheres, the Northern, Southern, Eastern, and Western. No other continent shares this ...

Recent advances in science have unearthed a significant revelation: the discovery of a ‘lost’ continent, Zealandia, which was hidden for 375 years. This notable find shakes up our understanding of ...

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 ...