And unfortunately for the Mediterranean, youth does not equal longevity in this case. In fact, it is suggested that as the Earth’s tectonic plates move, causing continents to shift and change ...

Plate tectonics give Earth its mountains, earthquakes, continental drift and maybe even helped give rise to life itself. But ...

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon dwarfing any other known floods in Earth's history," an ...

Since then, scientists have put together models of plate tectonics, incorporating new data and have found the occasional new continent. In 2019, one team looked at the Mediterranean region ...

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.