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Scientists discover 'sunken worlds' hidden deep within Earth's mantle that shouldn't be there


A new way of measuring structures deep inside Earth has highlighted numerous previously unknown blobs within our planet's mantle. These anomalies are surprisingly similar to sunken chunks of Earth's crust but appear in seemingly impossible places.

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