The Mediterranean Sea was once a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted for hundreds of thousand years until a huge "megaflood" refilled it.

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 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 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 ...

Until recently, scientists believed that the dry period of the Messinian salinity crisis ended gradually over a period of 10,000 years. This idea was challenged by evidence of a single massive ...

This surge of water - the Zanclean Megaflood - is said to have ended a period during which the Mediterranean was a vast expanse of salt flats, known as the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jumbled deposits of rock found on the top of hills in south-east Sicily were left by the megaflood that refilled the Mediterranean sea 5 million years – the largest known flooding event in Earth ...