Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research shows that these regions are not only hotter than the surrounding graveyard of cold sunken ...

As we take our daily walks along the Earth’s surface, there are secrets hidden under our feet. Just this week, research revealed that two ancient, massive islands are buried in the planet’s mantle.

Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Earth’s mantle behaves like a slow-moving fluid, but that hasn’t stopped two vast regions at its base from maintaining a ...

Massive hidden structures in Earth's mantle, called LLSVPs, shape tectonic activity, drive volcanoes, and reveal ancient ...

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge 'islands' with the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University shows that these ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

A stunning composite image, made up of three years' worth of satellite photos, shows the ancient lava of Libya's Haruj ...

In the first image from November 2022, the underwater mud volcano is solidly beneath sea level, with no discernable land ...