"Rediscovery of a Vanished Continent After Centuries in Hiding"

Scientists have confirmed the existence of Zealandia, a long-lost continent over a billion years old, located beneath New Zealand's South and Stewart Islands. Geologist Rose Turnbull and her team identified ancient zircon crystals in rock samples, leading to the discovery of continental crust fragments as old as 2.7 billion years. This research, published in the Geology journal, adds Zealandia as the youngest sibling among Earth's continents, with its crust not as old as those on other continents, which date back more than three billion years.