Lemuria found, reports Sid Perkins: "The drowned remnants of an ancient microcontinent may lie scattered beneath the waters between Madagascar and India, a new study suggests." [Nature]

  • http://twitter.com/rvitelli Romeo Vitelli

    Hope the Lemurians managed to evacuate in time…

    • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

       Well, they did, but those silly Lemurians just went to Atlantis and you know how THAT turned out. They probably made it too heavy or tipped it over or something.

    • retepslluerb

      They did. At least in Perry Rhodan dime novels, where they are acknowledged as the main ethnic group responsible for settling large parts of the Milky Way and Andromeda. 

  • http://twitter.com/chrisjimson chris jimson

    “an island or archipelago about three times the size of Crete”

    Oh. . . so that’s a “microcontinent”?

    • http://www.facebook.com/victor.jimenezmerino Víctor Jiménez Merino

       Because “nanocontinent” or “regular island” just sounds silly!

  • http://www.pegritz.com Derek C. F. Pegritz

    That ain’t Lemuria.

    If I were you, I’d get busy brushing up on my bas-relief skills and trawling antique shops for certain idols that appear to be made of greenish soapstone.

    • euansmith

      Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn

  • euansmith

    “Ray ‘Crash’ Corrigan and the Zircons of Lost Lemuria”

  • SamSam

    By Jingo!

  • http://blog.doomsdayzen.com agonist

    Rock climbing, Joel. Rock climbing.

  • http://twitter.com/janjamm jan angevine

    Talk about an off-shore option!

  • jtegnell

     I may be that Alchemy was locked away after the four lighthouses were extinguished.