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Scientists Find 3-Billion-Year-Old Evidence Of Lost Continent

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Relics of a long-lost continent may lurk beneath the Indian Ocean. Tiny zircon crystals coughed up by volcanic eruptions on the island of Mauritius are around 2.5 billion to 3 billion years old. That’s billions of years older than the island itself, researchers report January 31 in Nature Communications.

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