Over 5 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea underwent one of the most dramatic transformations in Earth’s history. During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, the sea largely dried up, leaving vast salt ...

Imagine the entire Mediterranean Sea disappeared, leaving behind an empty, sun-baked salt plain stretching from Spain to the Middle East. Then imagine the Atlantic Ocean suddenly crashing through a ...

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A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast expanse of salt flats. The study suggests the ...

Researchers identified geological features that point to a single massive flooding event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago Reading time 3 minutes Millions of years ago, the ...

Sicily (the large island next to the ‘toe’ of Italy) still forms part of a divide between the Mediterranean’s darker basins, shaded in deeper blue (GEBCO / National Oceanographic Centre, UK, CC ...

Rain is expected this week, as an atmospheric river rolls over California, but don’t expect a “megaflood.” The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is warning people of false rumors ...

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A study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal "megaflood" refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Mediterranean was a vast expanse of salt flats. The research ...