Do you think people have pretty much gotten the hang of how things work on Earth? For example, we know that islands don’t just pop up overnight and they definitely don’t move. So when they do, we’re left scrambling for answers. Here are the most bizarre moving islands that had researchers stumped!

Scientists needed to study this thing up close. When they approached the mysterious island, they were amazed to find that it wasn’t a solid piece of land at all! It was a giant mass of rocks floating on the surface of the water. And it really was humungous, about 300 miles long and 30 miles wide, a lot bigger than Jamaica, in fact. And this layer of floating rocks was about 2 feet thick.

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