Zealandia, considered a candidate for the Earth’s eighth continent, was mostly lost to the sea. Geologists say they’ve now ...

Mortimer told Business Insider that the new maps offer more proof that Zealandia was actually a separate continent – as opposed to a "microcontinent," which was its classification before 2017 ...

Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The 'lost continent' of Zealandia, which is submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, experienced a major upheaval about 35 to 50 million years ago.

Zealandia, meanwhile, has not yet smashed into Australia. A piece of seafloor called the Cato Trough still separates the continents by 25 kilometers (15.5 miles).

Zealandia is a huge underwater landmass beneath present-day New Zealand. The continent, if it were above sea level, would multiply the size of New Zealand several times over.

Earth's mysterious eighth continent doesn't appear on most conventional maps. That's because almost 95 percent of its land mass is submerged thousands of feet beneath the Pacific Ocean. Zealandia ...

Zealandia: Earth's Hidden Continent Was Radically Altered by the Formation of the Ring of Fire Published Sep 11, 2017 at 6:05 AM EDT Updated Sep 11, 2017 at 4:53 PM EDT ...

Paleontologists in New Zealand discovered a 14.6-million-year-old bee fossil named Leioproctus barrydonovani, marking the oldest bee specimen ever recovered and the first of its kind found in the ...

New Zealand might be Australia’s smaller neighbor but it’s sitting on a massive new continent scientists have named “Zealandia,” according to a publication released by The Geological ...

Zealandia: Scientists Set to Drill Into Long-Lost Continent to Uncover Its Secrets Published Jul 21, 2017 at 11:29 AM EDT Updated Jul 21, 2017 at 12:54 PM EDT ...

“What we hope is that Zealandia will appear on world maps, in schools, everywhere.” “I think the revelation of a new continent is pretty exciting.” ...

Researchers determined a piece of land just east of Australia qualifies as a continent called, "Zealandia." The news comes days after scientists unearthed evidence of an ancient lost continent ...