Scientists have discovered the missing pieces of a long-lost continent that was once attached to Australia when dinosaurs roamed the planet, reports a new study. The scattered remains of this ancient landmass, known as Argoland, are buried underneath parts of Southwest Asian nations, such as Indonesia and Myanmar, opening a new window into the deep past of this dynamic region.For decades, researchers have been puzzled by the disappearance of a huge 3,000-mile-long landmass, known as Argoland, that once bordered northwestern Australia some 155 million years ago, during the Jurassic era. 

Scientists know that Argoland existed because it created an immense patch of old seafloor as it moved north, known as the Argo Abyssal Plain. The tantalizing footsteps of this ancient landmass lead into Southeast Asia, but then the trail suddenly seems to go cold, with no sign of a huge continental chunk buried under the region. Now, Eldert Advokaat and Douwe van Hinsbergen, a pair of geologists at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, suggest that Argoland’s crust began to splinter into what they call an “Argopelago” of smaller islands as early as 300 million years ago, when Antarctica, South America, Africa, Australia, and India were part of a supercontinent called Gondwana. 

The researchers have now “identified the Gondwana-derived blocks and mega-units of Southwest Borneo, Greater Paternoster, East Java, South Sulawesi, West