#DidYouKnow: #Madagascar is home to an abundance of plants and animals found nowhere else on Earth.
This distinctive ecology has led some ecologists to refer to Madagascar as the "eighth #Continent", and the island has been classified by Conservation International as a #Biodiversity hotspot.
Approximately 155 million years ago, a 5000 km piece of continent broke off from western Australia, leaving behind a basin hidden below the ocean known as the Argo Abyssal Plain.This underwater feature lends its name to the newly formed continent of Argoland, which must have drifted to where the islands of Southeast Asia are...
Geological puzzle of lost continent of Argoland solved (www.heritagedaily.com)
Approximately 155 million years ago, a 5000 km piece of continent broke off from western Australia, leaving behind a basin hidden below the ocean known as the Argo Abyssal Plain.This underwater feature lends its name to the newly formed continent of Argoland, which must have drifted to where the islands of Southeast Asia are...