A groundbreaking discovery has been made by scientists in the Pacific Ocean: the identification of a sunken continent. Known ...

New Zealand, the land of Hobbits, ridiculously beautiful landscapes and, uh, The Feebles, has just become a little bit more magical. An entire flipping continent might be hiding beneath New ...

This article is more than 8 years old. A group of geologists is making a new push to add an eighth continent to the accepted list, known as Zealandia.

The crust thickness is believed to increase to more than 24 miles under portions of New Zealand’s South Island. This newly identified continent covers about the same amount of area as India.

As measured by human landmarks, Zealandia encompasses New Zealand and the island of New Caledonia about 1,500 miles to the north. It stretches beyond both and is two-thirds the size of Australia.

Its only point above sea level in New Zealand’s two main islands and New Caledonia – the proposed continent’s highest “mountain range.” A further five million square kilometers – or 95 ...

New Zealand and several islands, including New Caledonia, should be reclassified as part of a continent called Zealandia, say geologists.

Under New Zealand, there lies a vast continent on the sea floor. Once part of the same land mass as Antarctica and Australia, the lost continent of Zealandia broke off 85 million years ago and ...

New Zealand, the land of Hobbits, ridiculously beautiful landscapes and, uh, The Feebles, has just become a little bit more magical. An entire flipping continent might be hiding beneath New ...