Zealandia, Earth's hidden 8th continent, lay submerged for centuries. Now fully mapped, it reveals secrets of tectonic drift, ...

You might think you know all the continents, but what about Zealandia ... disappearing long before humans existed on Earth. Only a large mountain chain (the two islands of New Zealand) and ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American ...

An incredible mapping effort has revealed the mystery of what had until recently been Earth's missing continent. Zealandia was only recognised as Earth's eighth continent back in 2017, and part of the ...

The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

New research suggests that Earth's first crust, formed over 4.5 billion years ago, already carried the chemical traits we ...

Beneath the crust of North America, scientists have found that the deep roots of the continent are slowly dripping away in ...

Scientists discovered Earth's first crust had continental chemical signatures. This challenges beliefs about when these ...

It’s long been thought that tectonic plates needed to dive beneath each other to create the chemical fingerprint we see in ...