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.

Around 5.3 million years ago, the eastern and western Mediterranean basins were suddenly refilled during an event known as the Zanclean megaflood. Now, a new study finds evidence of this flood in ...

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 ...

A new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment provides compelling evidence that the Zanclean megaflood refilled the Mediterranean Sea, ending the Messinian salinity ...

A new study has provided compelling new evidence that a huge “megaflood” refilled the Mediterranean Sea around 5 million years ago. This surge of water - the Zanclean Megaflood - is said to ...

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 ...

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 ...

"The Zanclean megaflood was an awe-inspiring natural phenomenon, with discharge rates and flow velocities that eclipse all other known floods in Earth's history," said Dr. Aaron Micallef.