A giant continent, bigger than India, vanished beneath the Pacific Ocean for centuries, and the world didn’t even notice. Now ...

Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly underwater landmass, spanning about 4.9 million square kilometers, challenges ...

Scientists recently gathered more clues into the history of Earth’s seventh continent, Zealandia. The mostly submerged continent was hiding in plain sight until a new study backed up its existence ...

Another week, another newly discovered continent. Researchers determined a piece of land just east of Australia qualifies as a continent called, "Zealandia." The news comes days after scientists ...

Three years ago, the identification of Zealandia as a continent made global headlines. Now, newly published results from our scientific drilling expedition reveal the largely submerged Zealandia ...

Hannah Osborne is Nesweek's Science Editor, based in London, UK. Hannah joined Newsweek in 2017 from IBTimes UK. She is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and King's College London. Languages; ...

The first-ever expedition to Zealandia, the mysterious, submerged “eighth continent,” has officially come a close. After docking their ship, the JOIDES Resolution, in Hobart, Australia, the ...

The lost continent of Zealandia may once have been much closer to land level, providing a way for plants and animals to cross continents 80 million years ago. Scientists affiliated with the ...

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 ...

With his new book, Bruce Luyendyk has created a whole new genre — the geothriller. Mighty Bad Land follows the longtime UC Santa Barbara researcher on his 1989 expedition to Antarctica, a gritty ...

New Zealand may actually be a small portion of a larger land mass that some scientists are saying is its own continent. Wikimedia Commons The legend of a lost continent submerged under the ocean may ...

Another week, another newly discovered continent. Researchers determined a piece of land just east of Australia qualifies as a continent called, "Zealandia." The news comes days after scientists ...