Far beneath the waves of the southwest Pacific, scientists have finished charting a landmass so large and so coherent that it now stands beside Africa, Asia and the rest as a full-fledged continent.

For much of modern geological history, the number of continents seemed fixed and unquestioned. Yet a mostly submerged landmass in the South Pacific has disrupted that familiar picture. Zealandia, ...

(WISH) – Geologists say they may have found a new continent. They are calling it “Zealandia,” according to a new study in the Geological Society of America’s journal, GSA Today. The study says ...