“The Mediterranean is a dog’s breakfast,” says Robert Stern, a plate tectonics expert at the University of Texas at Dallas who was not involved with the work. Within this messy ...

As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates crash together in super slow motion, the Mediterranean Sea is likely to be wiped off the face of the planet in the distant future, IFL Science reported.

The oldest known bit of oceanic crust, located in the Mediterranean, dates to just 340 million years ago, making it far too young to be useful for pinpointing when plate tectonics arose.

The oldest known bit of oceanic crust, located in the Mediterranean, dates to just 340 million years ago, making it far too young to be useful for pinpointing when plate tectonics arose.

So, millions of years ago, the movement of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates caused a ridge to form, blocking the Atlantic Ocean from flowing into the Mediterranean Sea. At the same time ...

According to the paper, which used computational models to predict future plate tectonics, the subduction zone in the Mediterranean underneath the Gibraltar Strait is expected to move further into ...

the ancestors of seahorses were able to spread from their home base in the Mediterranean region to other areas, including Southeast Asia. And here’s where plate tectonics enters the ...