The mostly submarine continent includes New Zealand. — -- We're taught in elementary school that there are seven continents on Earth -- Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America ...

(WISH) – Geologists say they may have found a new continent. They are calling it “Zealandia,” according to a new study in the Geological Society of America’s journal, GSA Today. The study says ...

You think you know your continents? Think again. We're taught in elementary school that there are seven continents on Earth -- Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South ...

Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it now stands beside Africa, Asia and the rest as a full-fledged continent.

For much of modern geological history, the number of continents seemed fixed and unquestioned. Yet a mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific has disrupted that familiar picture. Zealandia, ...

Zealandia, which is mostly submerged beneath the South Pacific, was once part of the Gondwana super-continent but broke away some 75 million years ago. In a paper published in the Geological Society ...

How could a continent with a surface area of almost 5 million square kilometers, larger than India or almost two-thirds the size of Australia, remain absent from maps and ignored by the scientific ...