Something Weird Was Just Found Off the Coast of Northern Australia

Right now, off Australia's northern coast, researchers are actively searching for physical evidence of an entire lost world. During the last Ice Age, sea levels sat over 120 metres lower than today, exposing roughly 2 million square kilometres of land that once joined Australia, New Guinea, and Tasmania into a single continent called Sahul. Humans reached it by at least 65,000 years ago, crossing open ocean to do it. Then the ice melted, the sea came back, and by around 8,000 years ago, an entire landmass larger than most countries on Earth had simply disappeared beneath the waves, taking whole coastal communities and generations of unrecorded history down with it. Some researchers believe Aboriginal oral traditions from multiple language groups may still be describing that exact flooding event today, passed down for thousands of years.

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