Mauritius

You’ll never guess what scientists found while meticulously sorting through sand dug from Mauritius’s beaches – zircon sand grains revealing traces of a lost continent!

They discovered sand from a volcanic eruption some nine million years ago, which contained sand grains of a much higher age—revealing a lost continent hiding far beneath Mauritius.

The work of researchers going through extensive amounts of sand in search of specific grains sounds familiar. OUAW’s findings end up at scientific laboratories, too, focusing on shape rather than age…