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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 blobs are both hotter and ...