The long-lost supercontinent Gondwana has finally been pieced together after 550 million years.
For years, scientists have known that the ancient landmass included present-day South America, Africa, Arabia, Madagascar, India, Australia, and Antarctica.
However, a new study suggests that Gondwana was actually even more extensive than this.
Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences have discovered hidden fragments in the Precambrian terranes – ancient blocks of the Earth’s crust that formed before the Cambrian period.
The discovery suggests that Gondwana may have represented a staggering 80 per cent of Earth’s landmass at the time.
‘While Earth’s history records at least three well–recognized supercontinents (Columbia, Rodinia,
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