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.

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.

Like all beautiful things, the Mediterranean Sea isn’t going to be around forever. As two of Earth’s great tectonic plates crash together in super slow motion, there's a strong chance the ...

Today, the upheavals of plate tectonics continually reshape Earth. When this began is much disputed - and we can’t fully understand how life began to thrive on our planet until we figure it out ...

such as the Campi Flegrei volcano in Italy - where the Eurasian plate and the African Atlantic plate are moving towards each other along the Mediterranean sea.

It has vast water oceans and abundant life. But Earth is also unique because it is the only planet with plate tectonics, which shaped its geology, climate and possibly influenced the evolution of ...