Researchers have uncovered strong new evidence that a colossal "megaflood" replenished the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million ...

California state emergency officials have debunked a viral video that warned of a "megaflood" caused by a so-called "ARkStorm" coming to California. "This video has over half a million views and is ...

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 a ...

Researchers identified geological features that point to a single massive flooding event that refilled the Mediterranean Sea 5.33 million years ago reading time 3 minutes Millions of years ago, the ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For 600,000 years during the tail end of the Miocene epoch, the Mediterranean was a ...

Rain is expected this week, as an atmospheric river rolls over California, but don’t expect a “megaflood.” The California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services is warning people of false rumors ...

Sicily (the large island next to the ‘toe’ of Italy) still forms part of a divide between the Mediterranean’s darker basins, shaded in deeper blue (GEBCO / National Oceanographic Centre, UK, CC ...

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" ...

A new study provides compelling new evidence that a colossal 'megaflood' refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending a period during which the Med was a vast expanse of salt flats. The study suggests the ...

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Thousands of years ago, an ice dam holding back a vast glacial lake suddenly collapsed — unleashing a torrent of water that ...