The sunny Mediterranean Sea—today a very popular holiday destination—had a period long ago when it was an expansive salt flat, entirely dry. The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" ...

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Between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, the Messinian Salinity Crisis caused the Mediterranean Sea to be cut off from the Atlantic Ocean and evaporate into an expanse of salt deposits.

The sea may have been refilled by a gigantic "megaflood" some 5.33 million years ago, according to a new paper in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. The so-called Zanclean Megaflood ...

which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med ...

which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago. An international team of scientists, including the University of Southampton, have identified a series of geological features around South ...