{"id":174592,"date":"2023-10-22T21:22:54","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-discover-continent-that-had-been-missing-for-375-years"},"modified":"2023-10-22T21:22:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T02:22:54","slug":"scientists-discover-continent-that-had-been-missing-for-375-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-discover-continent-that-had-been-missing-for-375-years","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover continent that had been missing for 375 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-continent-that-had-been-missing-for-375-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Geoscientists discovered a continent that had been hiding in plain sight for almost 375 years.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, there\u2019s been speculation about whether a continent known as Zealandia or Te Riu-a-M\u0101ui in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indy100.com\/topic\/Maori\" target=\"_blank\">M\u0101ori<\/a> language exists.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timesnownews.com\/technology-science\/lost-continent-found-zealandia-emerges-after-375-years-article-98805375\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>TN News<\/em><\/a><em>, <\/em>Zealandia<em><\/em>is 1.89 million square miles in size. It was part of a supercontinent called Gondwana, which included most of Western Antarctica and Eastern Australia, over 500 million years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoscientists discovered a continent that had been hiding in plain sight for almost 375 years. Historically, there\u2019s been speculation about whether a continent known as Zealandia or Te Riu-a-M\u0101ui in the M\u0101ori language exists. According to TN News, Zealandiais 1.89 million square miles in size. It was part of a supercontinent called Gondwana, which included [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}