A team of French, American and Turkish paleontologists and geologists led by CNRS researchers1 has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed Balkanatolia, which today covers ...

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A team of geologists and palaeontologists has discovered that, some 50 million years ago, there was a low-lying continent separating Europe from Asia that they have named Balkanatolia. At the time, it ...

A team of French, American, and Turkish paleontologists and geologists, including UConn researcher Megan Mueller, has discovered the existence of a forgotten continent they have dubbed “Balkanatolia,” ...