Historically, there's been speculation about whether a continent known as Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Māui in the Māori language exists. According to TN News, Zealandia is 1.89 million square miles in size.
A new study, published in the journal Gondwana Research, posits that we actually only have six continents. This extraordinary claim is the result of detailed research into the geological processes ...
The islands, about the size of Tasmania, were once part of the super-continent Gondwana and are more than 1.5km underwater. Researchers from the University of Sydney, Macquarie University and the ...
It's the first time Earth's geologic record — information found inside rocks — has been used to create an animation of this kind.
New interpretations and mapping of all New Zealand’s offshore sedimentary basins offer clues about the evolution of Earth’s eighth continent.
Around 225 million years ago Pangaea began to split into a northern continent, called Laurasia, and its southern counterpart, Gondwana. Each continent carried its own cargo of animals. Based on ...
Gondwana is a former supercontinent that broke ... the south Atlantic Ocean fill the space between the two newly formed continents.
Later on, this "continent" was discovered to be two continents ... When did it break away from Gondwana? Why do we have these central North Island volcanoes? Why do we have the Southern Alps?" ...
Scientists have revealed how a “tag-team” between the oceans and continents millions of years ago devastated ... could have feasibly responded to the breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana, the great ...
"[It] dates back to 500 million years ago, and this is what that giant Gondwana continent looked like — it was covered in this cool-temperate rainforest." Here, Rob points out a towering myrtle ...
Later on, this "continent" was discovered to be two continents ... When did it break away from Gondwana? Why do we have these central North Island volcanoes? Why do we have the Southern Alps?" said ...