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 ...

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

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

Uncover the Zanclean Megaflood, a catastrophic event 5 million years ago that dramatically reshaped the Mediterranean, challenging previous theories with new geological evidence.

An international team of researchers has uncovered new evidence supporting the Zanclean megaflood, a theorized event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea after the Messinian Salinity Crisis had ...

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural ... identified geological features around Southeast Sicily that indicate a massive flood occurred across the region. The authors of the new ...

As the flood intensified, it carved deeper channels ... Reference: “Land-to-sea indicators of the Zanclean megaflood” by Aaron Micallef, Giovanni Barreca, Christian Hübscher, Angelo Camerlenghi, Paul ...

As per Earth.com, unlike a regular flood, this was a huge surge of water that changed the landscape, turning a large salt desert into the Mediterranean Sea as we see it today. The Zanclean Megaflood ...

“Our research provides the most compelling evidence yet of this extraordinary event.” Understanding events like the Zanclean flood helps us appreciate how dramatically Earth’s geography can change ...