The remains of a small continent have been hiding right under our noses for the past 85 million years or so. That's according to a new study published Sunday in the journal Nature Geoscience.

William Blake saw the universe in a grain of sand. A team of geologists saw a continent. In a paper published online Monday in Nature Geoscience, an international research team reports that it has ...

Earth as it was about 750 million years ago, when the supercontinent Rodinia was breaking up. Proposed microcontinent Mauritia would have been between Madagascar and India. Trond Torsvik Scientists ...

Update: A new study in the British journal Nature Communications recognizes additional samples of the volcanic rock zircon of up to 3 billion years old, providing additional evidence to support the ...

Study finds 3-billion-year-old crystals on Mauritius tied to hidden microcontinent “Mauritia,” supporting 19th-century legends of a lost land beneath the Indian Ocean. A geoscience paper by Jothi ...

Some 85 million years ago, a small landmass was sandwiched somewhere between what are now India and Madagascar. This ancient continent — Mauritia — was long the stuff of near legend, with geologists ...

Scientists have uncovered what appears to be the scattered remains of an ancient continent buried beneath the Indian Ocean. Tiny mineral grains found in the beach sands of Mauritius point to a ...

Scientists have discovered what could be the remains of a "Precambrian microcontinent" in the Indian Ocean area, after studying lava sands from beaches on Mauritius. In the study published Sunday in ...