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Remains of 3,000-mile-wide ‘lost continent’ discovered on ocean floor, study says
The splintered remnants of Argoland, a 155 million-year-old continent that once stretched as wide as the United States, were recently located throughout the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. - Dreamstime/Dreamstime/TNS

Remains of 3,000-mile-wide ‘lost continent’ discovered on ocean floor, study says

While Atlantis — a fabled continent said to have been swallowed by the sea — continues to elude its seekers, another long-lost and less famous land mass has been discovered at the bottom of the ocean. The splintered remnants of Argoland, a 155 million-year-old continent that once stretched as wide as the United States, were recently located throughout the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. “Finding Argoland proved challenging,” geologists wrote in a pre-print study posted Oct. 19 in the journal Gondwana Research. “We spent seven years putting the puzzle together,” Eldert Advokaat, one of the stu...

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