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Found – one lost continent, hiding underneath a tropical holiday destination. It might sound implausible, but deep at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, a research team, led by South Africa’s University ...

Walking on the Mauritian beach at sunset is a humbling experience. A patchwork of colours from pink, yellow, gold, orange and red manifests on both sea and sky. But it's not only the sunset on the ...

Recent scientific discoveries suggest the existence of a submerged continent beneath the Indian Ocean. This lost landmass, believed to be a fragment of the ancient supercontinent Gondwana, has ...

The remains of a micro-continent scientist call Mauritia might be preserved under huge amounts of ancient lava beneath the Indian Ocean, a new analysis of island sands in the area suggests. These ...

Just like people, continents break up and drift apart. And just like messy human relationships, sometimes an ex that you thought you had forgotten resurfaces unexpectedly. Happily though, today's case ...

Figure 1: Crustal thickness map based on gravity inversion and the Réunion hotspot chain. The Seychelles has long been considered as a geological peculiarity, and represents a Precambrian continental ...

Changing the way fruit is gathered from a “tree of life” could slow the impacts of climate change and boost the global ecosystem. The palm tree Mauritia flexuosa was dubbed the “tree of life” by ...