In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have identified a 120-million-year-old segment of Earth’s crust, long thought lost, in the region of Borneo. This revelation uncovers the existence of a previously unknown tectonic plate named Pontus. The find was spearheaded by Suzanna van de Lagemaat, a graduate geologist at Utrecht University, alongside her supervisor, Douwe van Hinsbergen, through meticulous analysis of geological data from Asia-Pacific’s mountainous terrains.