Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm ...

In fact, the Mediterranean Sea was, at one time, not even a sea at all. In fact, this now firmly aquatic areas once became a large, salty desert. This is all because of the Messinian Salinity Crisis.

At the time, the Mediterranean Sea was almost a salt flat, just a shadow of its current self. Then, the sea finally overtopped. What followed was a cataclysm of almost unimaginable scale—a flood that ...

low-salt lakes. This suggested that the Mediterranean Sea dropped to more than a kilometre below today’s level, and as most of the water evaporated, salt was left behind. A series of lakes would ...

A little over 5 million years ago, water from the Atlantic Ocean found a way through the present-day Strait of Gibraltar.

Only eighty-six of the 780 or so species from the sea that existed before the salinity crisis have survived into the modern-day Mediterranean, and the fact that they lived through the flood is a ...

low-salt lakes. This suggested that the Mediterranean Sea dropped to more than a kilometer below today's level, and as most of the water evaporated, salt was left behind. A series of lakes would ...