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'Lost Continent' Discovered Under Mauritius In The Indian Ocean

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Island of Mauritius (Photo Credit: Prof Susan J Webb, University of the Witwatersrand)

Move over, Atlantis! A real lost continent has been discovered by a team of geologists led by Lewis D. Ashwal from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The scientists, who have named it Mauritia, believe that the landmass was once part of Gondwana, the supercontinent that included most of the landmasses in the modern-day Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent that are now part of the Northern Hemisphere.