The reason is that 95 per cent of its area is submerged beneath the southwest Pacific Ocean, disappearing long before humans existed on Earth ... a new geological map containing Zealandia.

NASA's SWOT satellite maps nearly of all Earth's water (video) — Watch NASA's SWOT satellite unfold in space to map Earth's water in stunning video ...

This does have its drawbacks, as the Earth is round, but pages are flat, so what we see on a map is slightly distorted.Globes and maps are how we’ve seen the world for hundreds of years.

A minor, 3.8-magnitude earthquake struck in the Gulf of Maine on Monday, according to the United States Geological Survey.

Sample locations and inferred geological map of the southern part of Zealandia ... This fault is likely a "scar" in Earth's crust, formed when Zealandia broke off from Antarctica and Australia ...

Except in the crust, the interior of the Earth cannot be studied by drilling holes to take samples. Instead, scientists map the interior by watching how seismic waves from earthquakes are bent ...