Zealandia, which some researchers believe could be considered Earth's eighth continent, is older than previously thought. Recent studies suggest that Zealandia is over a billion years old. Scientists ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth ... 45 kilometers of the other continents. The mapped sandstones are approximately 95 million years old and contain older granite ...

Research on hidden structures deep within Earth’s mantle challenges theories about our planet’s middle layer and could ...

This submerged landmass, about the size of England, lies underneath the Davis Strait and is about 60 million years old ... how we think of continents. The implications of these findings go beyond ...

Pangea essentially turned inside out, the edges of the old continent becoming the ... with Asia we must first look beneath the Earth's surface. The continents are carried by the Earth's tectonic ...

Here’s how it works. Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds. Known as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs), these ...

This was when the Earth was one continent called Pangaea that slowly broke apart and spread out to form the continents we ...

Two enormous continent-sized "islands" found buried deep inside the Earth's mantle are challenging ... possibly being around 500 million years old, according to a new paper in the journal Nature.

A University of Derby study led by Dr. Phethean proposes Earth has six continents, not seven. Using advanced geological techniques, researchers suggest North America and Eurasia might be connected ...