Because of this, astonishingly few have ever been found, and Australia in particular has largely remained a blank slate. “You could put all the fossil material in a handbag,” Unwin says.

Australian Defence personal exit an RAAF C-17A Globemaster as a mock fire blast occurs during a military showcase on March 28, 2025, in Avalon, Australia. (Asanka Ratnayake/Getty Images ...

The high-resolution map reveals what the frozen continent looks like beneath its miles-thick blanket of ice and snow, and will help researchers predict how Antarctica might evolve in a fast ...

Australia is always on the move, with new and exciting events popping up all across the country. However, we’re also on the move in a more literal sense. Our island continent is gradually ...

said that the “complex landscape” that existed on the Northwest Shelf of Australia was “unlike any landscape found on our ...

“Labeling and identifying part of the Earth as a continent, even a small, thin and submerged one, is more informative than just leaving a map blank.” This creates ... Although New Zealand and ...

“Labeling and identifying part of the Earth as a continent, even a small, thin and submerged one, is more informative than just leaving a map blank ... New Zealand and Australia are often ...

which enables users to place maps of countries and continents directly over other landmasses to discover how big they really are. Using this tale-of-the-tapes function, it turns out that Britain ...

Deposits of critical minerals and rare earths badly needed to develop renewable energy technologies will be mapped as part of a $566 million plan in next week’s federal budget. Prime Minister ...

Africa, Asia, Australia, Antarctica, North and South America, Europe—and the Maritime Continent. Never heard of the last one? That's because it's not a continent made of land. In fact ...

The study was published in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews A long-lost continent that was nearly twice the size of the UK has been discovered off the coast of northern Australia.