The number of continents is one of the first facts most people are taught ...

A brand new continent has emerged in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. A process that would typically take millions of years happened overnight. How would this disrupt the Earth’s fragile geography?

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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Zealandia, widely described in current geological literature as Earth’s mostly submerged eighth continent, sits around New Zealand and New Caledonia.

Geologists have long known that around 155 million years ago, a 5,000 km long piece of continent broke off western Australia and drifted away. They can see that by the 'void' it left behind: a basin ...

A group of geologists is making a new push to add an eighth continent to the accepted list, known as Zealandia. The scientists have been working for two decades gathering data to support their claim ...