“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 ...

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.

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 ...

If the solar system’s hottest world, once had plate tectonics, maybe it was also capable of sustaining life long ago. New research has revealed Venus may have had Earth-like plate tectonics ...

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 ...

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 ...