Around five million years ago, Earth may have witnessed the largest flood in recorded history. This flood, according to ...

Between 5.5 and 6 million years ago, the Atlantic Ocean became unable to flow into the area that is now known as the Mediterranean Sea. Why? Well it is all down to the earth’s tectonic plages.

when geophysical data for the planned Africa-Europe tunnel through Gibraltar suggested that a huge underwater trench between the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea must have been created by ...

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 ...

“At 5.5 Ma, the Mediterranean was isolated from the open oceans and first developed in a salt-brine with kilometres thick salt deposits at its sea floor. “Then it became a brackish water ...

becoming the Mediterranean. The Messinian Salinity Crisis—which ran between 5.97 to 5.33 million years ago—occurred when the sea became isolated from the Atlantic Ocean, leading to the near ...

More than 87% of the Mediterranean Sea, which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to Africa, Europe and Asia, is polluted with microplastics and other pollutants including toxic metals and industrial ...

Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Mediterranean transformed from a thriving sea to a giant salt basin ... cutting the Mediterranean off from the Atlantic Ocean.