Earth’s eighth continent, Zealandia, has been largely unrecognized and “missing” from maps for 375 years. This mostly underwater landmass, spanning about 4.9 million square kilometers, challenges ...

A dark, carbon-rich layer of soil stretches across parts of North America like a bruise in the geologic record, a “black scar ...

Zealandia broke apart from the supercontinent Gondwana millions of years ago then sank. It's hard to study an underwater landmass, but researchers say they've created a complete map. Studying ...

There is lot fuzz about the discovery of a slab of granite embedded into basaltic rocks of the oceanic crust - granite is a rock typical of continental crust (including island arcs), which prompted ...

Beaver hats and buckskin britches are little more than historical curiosities now — reminders of a long-vanished European fashion craze that reached its zenith in the early 1800s. But beginning not ...

A weekly round-up of stories from across the continent with Georja Calvin-Smith.  African scholars update a monumental book ...