No, it's not really Atlantis, but geologists did find evidence of a large island/continent off the coast of Scotland that sank beneath the ocean about 55 million years ago. Though it is interesting to note that a land mass as large as that could actually "disappear without a trace" like the legendary Atlantis is purported to have done.

http://io9.com/5820246/this-lost-continent-off-the-coast-of-scotland-disappeared-beneath-the-ocean-55-million-years-ago

Ah, Gawker. Too bad.

Huh?

Would you rather I linked to the Nature.com article which has less info and forces you to subscribe to the site to read the full article or pay for the PDF of the scientific report the IO9 article is derived from?
http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ngeo1191.html

It's not a hoax, even if io9 ran it.

Original article, in Nature Geoscience: Transient convective uplift of an ancient buried landscape (abstract)

The authors seem to be saying this has happened more than once, too:

"When parts of the European continental shelf were episodically lifted above sea level, new landscapes were carved by erosion, but these landscapes then subsided and were buried beneath marine sediments."

Given Gawker's journalistic approach, yes.

I don't read or know anything about Gawker, but I don't see anything wrong with IO9's journalistic approach on this at all. Perhaps you are just too stuck on your preconceptions of this site's sister site (the two sites may be related, but they are not the same thing). Personally, I'd rather read a far more interesting article, regardless of the site it is posted on, than be forced to join a site or pay for a file just to find out about a fascinating geological curiosity.

I've always found Atlantis fascinating, and the past couple years I've read everything I could find on it. Thanks for the link. I don't really care about what site its on. It looks better than some of the complete nonsense I've read on the subject.

Wow thats crazy. You actually have to pay to read a damn science article? Wow, the internet never ceases to amaze me.

Though a interesting article either way.

Nature isn't the popular press. Almost all reputable scientific publications are by paid subscription only.

Of course, this has nothing to do with any "lost continent" of Atlantis, as it occurred far too early to have left any kind of record in human prehistory. The "usual suspects" for the Atlantis of legend remain untouched by this research.

What it does upset is the old conventional model of plate tectonics, which has not (until now, anyway) taken account of the role of mantle convection in raising and subsiding land masses with such extreme abruptness.

Meh. This kind of stuff happens all the time in Dungeons & Dragons!

I wouldn't say it 'upsets' it. The old conventional model isn't really disturbed one way or the other by this (i.e. the mechanics of seafloor spreading and the movement of the various plates aren't thrown out the window with this discovery). What this does is possibly add to the overall picture though, and provides more insight into the creation and destruction of land masses as well as possibly a better insight into mantle convection behavior.

*Do Not Read
Posted purely for reading enhancement qualities. (Mine)

We are all going to die
Atlantis bit the dust
A Scottish isle vanished
The earth shook
The ground quaked
The mountains rumbled
Dragons are not real
Mosquitos are
My pants ripped
We are all doomed!

;-p

On a side note, I don't think a real Atlantis ever existed...Sure plenty of cities have that have been sucked/fell/tsunamied into and destroyed by the ocean and are no doubt the basis of this myth...but a real super-advanced Atlantis? Yeah, and aliens are here now. Yeah, with their big fishie eyes and little slimy butts..What the...Hey whats that bright light?! Something Jus--- Hey, get your slimy butts outta my face! Now! And stop staring! Gawsh!!

8-p
(sorry folks, just felt like being really wierd today, it's the only way to live) ;-]