"Resurrected: Ancient Mega-Plate's Ghostly Return Stuns Scientists"

Scientists have rediscovered a long-lost tectonic plate, known as the Pontus plate, that disappeared 20 million years ago. The plate, once a quarter of the size of the Pacific Ocean, was found through rock fragments in Borneo and remnants detected in Earth's mantle. The discovery was made while studying the Pacific plate, and the researchers noticed a discrepancy in the latitude of the rocks collected in Borneo. Computer models revealed that the Pontus plate occupied a previously unknown gap between South China and Borneo. The plate formed at least 160 million years ago and eventually shrank before disappearing under the Australian and Chinese plates.