The Full Story Behind Earth's Lost Continents

Did you know that Earth used to have continents that no longer exist today? Millions of years ago, there were massive landmasses that have since disappeared, either sinking beneath the ocean or breaking apart to form new continents. One of these lost continents is called Zealandia, most of which is now submerged under the Pacific Ocean! There’s also a famous one called Gondwana, which eventually split into Africa, South America, Australia, and Antarctica. These changes happen because of plate tectonics, where Earth’s crust moves over time. It’s like a giant puzzle that keeps shifting, and we’re still discovering pieces of this ancient history!
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[@TexaLithua]

Zealandia.. of course.

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[@BrixSenco]

Zealandia (pronounced /ziːˈlændiə/), also known as Te Riu-a-Māui (Māori)[2] or Tasmantis (from Tasman Sea),[3][4] is an almost entirely submerged mass of continental crust in Oceania that subsided after breaking away from Gondwana 83-79 million years ago.[5] It has been described variously as a submerged continent, continental fragment, and microcontinent.[6] The name and concept for Zealandia was proposed by Bruce Luyendyk in 1995,[7] and satellite imagery shows it to be almost the size of Australia.[8] A 2021 study suggests Zealandia is over a billion years old, about twice as old as geologists previously thought.

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Bro they are just pumping out videos every second😭😭🙏🙏🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

[@BlackPeerama]

I am making my own cartoon series called, Black Peerama

[@thomasmoungoue6954]

​@@BlackPeeramaOK I will look at it

[@Jovplays]

Ayooo we got the continents playing hide and seek 💀💀💀💀

[@Athayayoit1019]

Bro got hide and seek before gta 6💀

[@thrumble_14]

Nahh

[@InfiniteDiscoveryOfficial]

It's unbelievable that beneath today's continents lie fragments of ancient lost ones! Europe is actually 'sitting' on a massive sunken continent like Greater Adria. Just imagine if we could see the full shape of these hidden lands, the world map would look totally different

[@Kizrrith]

0:34 Peekaboo 😘😜

[@swilldenn7160]

😂😂

[@BlackPeerama]

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[@CharltonJacob-l8o]

​@@BlackPeerama nobody cares 😒

[@kentlaw4882]

@@CharltonJacob-l8o Idk about u too

[@BlackPeerama]

0:34 Peekaboo, Lol 😂

[@kimbratton9620]

Amazing stuff!

[@panagiotispapapanagiotou7929]

0:10 Eurasia has Africa too. Visuals canal maybe disconnect them, but the bridges connect them. So we have afro-eurasia. With the same way that North and South America are connected by the Panama bridges of the Panama canal.

[@Jessmullan]

Ayoooo i cant believe where i live {Australia} used to be cold and hot 3:21 💀🔥❄️to there 3:37

[@elainerasonable6371]

For me the thumbnail looks like the statue of liberty

[@praisegabu2351]

The Real hot spot 😂

[@DENNISDispenza]

No one seems aware of Lemuria-MU which was a large land area in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. Lemuria-MU existed up to only a few tens of thousands of years ago. It was not as advanced as Atlantis, a high tech civilization that had existed for several million years in the Central Atlantic Ocean. Both of these groups sank into the seas perhaps because of geoloogical events and the melting of the Ice Age glaciers.

[@Chillzy-r6i]

The lost contident said… “peekaboo” yep that got me💀💀💀💀

[@SimonMan10142]

That's my home

[@Itz_cheezyman18]

I wish they existed

[@panagiotispapapanagiotou7929]

8:10 this means that the Americas and Russia if they will exist in the future, they will be greater neighbors by land. They are already neighbors by the sea.

[@Leopez02]

Yeah there's a 7 continents in the World South & North America, Africa, Asia, South & North Poles and Europa where I live here in Northen Europe's Finland that I really liked to see in this video's World map look, but I really believe there is the lost continents in the World that no one haven't found yet it's so interesting to think that and make me wan't to be the adventurous explorer or even sailor and travel across the World to find a new places and visit new friendly faces that would be AWESOME, but too hard and only a kid's dream and too hard for me, but you can always dreaming in the Bright Side! 🌏🌍🌎🌃🏞🌅🏝🗺😊💡

[@kuutti256]

SUOMI MAINITTU

[@Leopez02]

@@kuutti256 TORILLE!

[@ZianRitchardOrcullo]

So. Were living in a highest mountain?

[@alyonasaa7462]

So 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 DIFFERENT CONTINENTS IN HISTORY (I include Russia, Oceania merged with Australia, Central America separate)

[@carinayi894]

I’m in New Zealand.

[@BobbySun-r6u]

4:57 Pekkaboo

[@Mia-ob4sv]

am i the one whos thinking abt something 2:50

[@rileysadventure3728]

don’t tell me beyond the ice wall is real

[@cheRebideb]

I see it in the map

[@awaisanjum2110]

Zealandia still exists though

[@zasasi2011]

Bruh Greenland isnt the largest island

[@sofiasadovici]

Fr

[@zasasi2011]

Well if you put Greenland on Africa it's actually smaller then Africa

[@AlvinJ.Eduarte]

Yo 2:67

[@rayzdesign8043]

The lost continent called mu

[@bemotivated6245]

hollow earth is that continent and atlantis

[@Sega-r9f]

I ment this

[@tsychannel653]

where's old zealand

[@tsychannel653]

PERRY THE PLATYPUS

[@Lacigany.]

Mi

[@izerexx]

People who see lots of these on Google Maps 👇

[@XLOL_BACON-RBLX]

First!

[@markgarin6355]

Hard to see how india mived off the African Coast, and yet there was a continent there in the track. Not likely, as the 'missing continent' wasn't a continent before.

[@marlynpermejo4543]

F

[@Clouudsy]

first😊

[@fatihahnurizzatibenjamin9890]

Pekabo

[@samanthabetita985]

0:35 what happend bro australia after he moving i see madagascar

[@PhileoIND]

0:59 *Balkans not the Baltics, they're different

[@rameshg8755]

asia. different