Greece Was Once Part of South America

 From The Greek Reporter:

A geological study suggests that part of modern-day Greece may have once been physically connected to what is now South America, hundreds of millions of years ago. The findings come from research into ancient rock formations in the Pelagonian zone of northern and central Greece, showing strong chemical and age similarities with crust from the Amazon region. Lead researcher Olga Zlatkin, a geologist at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her team analyzed zircon crystals found in rocks that date back nearly 700 million years. (Read more.)