Scientists Find Lost Continent Argoland Missing For 15.5 crore years

Scientists have found a continent that disappeared 155 million years ago. It is being said that it was separated from Australia. Researchers have long believed that a large piece of the Earth separated from Australia and disappeared millions of years ago. It has been called Argoland which scientists had not been successful in finding till now. Researchers at Utrecht University in the Netherlands believe they have solved the mystery of this missing piece of Earth that is hidden beneath Easter Island in Southeast Asia.

Researchers at Utrecht University are saying that they knew that it could exist somewhere in the north of Australia. According to Eldert Advokaat, the author who led the study, their hope was that it would be found in Southeast Asia, according to Live Science. Researchers have tried to reconstruct the journey from the separation of that continent to its disappearance.

Researchers have found that parts of this land mass exist around Indonesia and Myanmar. To understand the entire process, scientists recreated Argoland's journey north. During this time they found remains of small seas which were 200 million years old. Scientists found that the lost continent separated from the main continent due to tectonic forces and scattered into pieces in South-East Asia.

Working on the hypothesis, researchers have stated that Argoland did not actually disappear. But it remained alive in the form of pieces and remained buried under the islands in the east of Indonesia. Now scientists hope that their study can provide information about the ancient climate system of this region. Besides, important information can also be obtained about the uneven distribution of species here.