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

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 ...

A team led by Giovanni Aloisi, CNRS researcher and geochemist at IPGP, highlights the significant drop in the Mediterranean Sea level during the Messinian Salinity Crisis, a major geological event ...

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 ...