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.

Zealandia has all the makings of a continent. There are highlands and lowlands. There’s a large flat plateau that, if it sat a bit higher, might have been a sprawling desert or grasslands.

"That paper is really showing its age: the illustrations are black and white and, 18 years ago, we were still very tentative about the viability of the Zealandia continent. "Now, we are a lot more ...

Deep beneath the Pacific Ocean, most of the remnants of a 2 million square foot lost continent known as Zealandia have fascinated scientists since 2017. Now, researchers from GNS Science in New Zea… ...

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 ...

The latest expedition to Zealandia, a sunken continent long lost beneath the ocean, uncovered 60-million-year-old specimens that reveal a dramatically different geography and climate in the past ...

Zealandia's area is nearly 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) — about half the size of Australia. But only 6% of the continent is above sea level.

The 'lost continent' of Zealandia, which is submerged beneath the Pacific Ocean, experienced a major upheaval about 35 to 50 million years ago. According to findings published Feb. 6 in the ...

Scientists are making a renewed claim for Zealandia—a land mass that is 94 percent submerged under water and includes New Zealand—to be recognized as a new continent. In a paper published in ...

Known as Zealandia, this landmass was also known as Te Riu-a-Māui in the Māori language, according to the Daily Galaxy. The land was more than 5 million square kilometers and was twice the size ...

Zealandia would be the youngest, thinnest, and most submerged continent, GNS Science researchers said. ... Massive black hole merger forms one 225 times the mass of the sun.