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 ...

The Messinian Salinity Crisis represents one of the most dramatic environmental perturbations of the late Neogene, during which restriction of the Atlantic-Mediterranean gateways led to episodic ...

Around5.6 million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea almost vanished. Cut off from the Atlantic Ocean, it gradually dried out, leaving behind a huge basin covered in salt and carved by rivers. Hundreds ...

A meta-analysis of Mediterranean Sea marine species reveals the profound impact of the Messinian Salinity Crisis – a drastic environmental event that resulted in the almost complete evaporation of the ...

New research has revealed insight into the evolution of this influential waterway, which may have been created when two ...