Or did it explode back to life in a single, furious event? The Mediterranean Sea is about two-thirds as big as the US, or about as big as five Spains put together. It’s so big that it seems hard ...

A strong, 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday, according to the United States Geological ...

The serene turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea hide a sharp-tasting secret ... a geologist with the University of Arizona and an expert in very big floods. Geologists of the 1800s didn ...

No other such basin exists in the world. The world map shows what a unique location the Mediterranean Sea has in the world -- it is big enough to house all of us but at the same time, with its ...

A cataclysmic flood could have filled the Mediterranean Sea — which millions of years ago was a dry basin — like a bathtub in the space of less than two years. A new model suggests that at the ...

Six million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea wasn’t nearly as picturesque as it is today. It was barely even a sea; tectonic activity had raised a mountain range in the Strait of Gibraltar ...

At that time, the Mediterranean Sea had been experiencing the "Messinian salinity crisis," in which large portions of the sea had dried up. As the waters receded, land area increased around ...

The sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea are home to over 700 varieties of fish and almost 10 per cent of the world's marine species. Its coastline is one of the most densely populated ...