Scientists find massive 'anomaly' underneath Bermuda Triangle 'unlike anything else on Earth'

A team of scientists have found an 'anomaly' beneath Bermuda which is not like anything else ever seen on Earth.

Most people when they hear the name Bermuda would naturally think of the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious part of the North Atlantic Ocean which developed a fearsome reputation as the place ships and planes needed to fear.

However, in that case the truth has largely been uncovered and the mystery 'solved', with a combination of factors producing 'rogue waves', which posed a greater risk to ships while the plane crashes are largely down to crew error.

In this case, it's not so much what's up with Bermuda as what's underneath it, as a recent study discovered a giant structure beneath the North Atlantic island.

There's something underneath Bermuda itself (Getty Images)

In the oceanic crust beneath Bermuda there's a layer of rock some 12.4 miles thick and there's nothing quite like it anywhere else.

Dr William Frazer, of Carnegie Science in Washington DC, told Live Science why this massive chunk of underwater rock is so special and unique.

He said: "Typically, you have the bottom of the oceanic crust and then it would be expected to be the mantle.

"But in Bermuda, there is this other layer that is emplaced beneath the crust, within the tectonic plate that Bermuda sits on."

Where exactly this inexplicably thick slice of rock underneath Bermuda initially came from is unknown, but Dr Frazer suggested it might help indicate something important about the existence of the island itself as a landmass that reaches above sea level.

Bermuda itself sits on an oceanic swell but the volcanic activity to create that swell is a but of a puzzler since the last known eruption on the island was 31 million years ago.

The experts reckon this rock beneath Bermuda is over 12 miles thick (Getty Stock Images)

It's possible this last eruption raised the ocean floor significantly and the giant rock anomaly the scientists found is evidence of that eruption.

"Understanding a place like Bermuda, which is an extreme location, is important to understand places that are less extreme," Dr Frazer said.

"It gives us a sense of what are the more normal processes that happen on Earth and what are the more extreme processes that happen."

There are all sorts of amazing discoveries to be made from studying what's underneath the surface of the sea, as another team of researchers found a long lost continent.

Known as Zealandia or Te Riu-a-Māui, this eighth continent is over a billion years old but most of it is underwater so until recently we didn't know what was going on.