A new study has revealed new evidence that a huge "megaflood" refilled a sea today adored by millions of tourists, ending a ...

The Mediterranean Sea was once a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted for ...

A new study has provided compelling new evidence that a huge "megaflood" refilled the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million ...

The study suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal ...

The authors also found evidence of w-shaped flood channels using seismic data and developed computer models to simulate how ...

The research suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. An international team of scientists, including the ...

During the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which occurred between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean. This isolation caused the near-total evaporation of ...

Until, that is, this roughly 600,000-year-long period known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis suddenly came to an end. At first, scientists believed that the water’s return to the Mediterranean ...

An international research team led by a Maltese marine geologist has uncovered evidence that the largest flooding event in known history happened in the Mediterranean more than five million years ago.

The study suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. An international team of scientists, including the University of ...