: Philip Sclater's original paper proposed a sunken land bridge in the Indian Ocean to explain why lemur fossils were found in both Madagascar and India but not in Africa or the Middle East.
: While the "Lemuria" of myth does not exist, scientists have found evidence of a "microcontinent" called Mauritia under the Indian Ocean, which may be what remains of the land mass that once connected these regions. LEMURIA.7z
: Modern geology (plate tectonics) has largely debunked the need for a land bridge like Lemuria, showing that Madagascar and India were once part of the supercontinent Gondwana. : Philip Sclater's original paper proposed a sunken