This is a map of the world, when you look closely you will see the seven<br />continents, including Asia, Australia, North and South America, Africa,<br />Europe, and Antarctica.<br />However, this wasn’t always the case, about 300 million years ago, Earth<br />didn't have seven continents; instead, it had Pangaea, a sizable<br />supercontinent, which was encircled by Panthalassa, a single ocean.<br />Up until about 200 million years ago (during the Triassic Period), Pangaea<br />was the only continent on Earth. Then, it started to fragment.<br />Pangaea was divided into two new continents, Laurasia and Gondwanaland,<br />during the Triassic Period.<br />The smaller continent, Laurasia, migrated north and eventually broke off into<br />what is today known as Europe, Asia, and North America. The bigger one,<br />Gondwanaland, divided into the modern continents of South America, Africa,<br />Australia, Antarctica, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Arabian Peninsula,<br />which together make up nearly two-thirds of the modern continent.<br />Many people are unaware that Gondwanaland also divided into another<br />portion. A portion that took researchers 375 years to find, becoming the<br />world's eighth continent, which had been lying in wait for them under the<br />ocean this entire time. <br />How did this continent come to be? What formerly dwelt there? Furthermore,<br />how long has it been submerged?<br />Join us as we explore scientists' insane new discovery of a hidden continent<br />under the ocean
