Researchers have identified traces of fossilized life in terrestrial gypsum deposits, opening a new avenue for the search for ...
ending a period during which the Mediterranean was a vast expanse of salt flats. The research suggests the Zanclean Megaflood ended the Messinian Salinity Crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5. ...
Scientists previously theorized that, over a period of 10,000 years ... been caused by overtopping Atlantic waters through a Late Messinian isthmus near the modern Gibraltar Strait, which ...
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 ...
Scientists are using a laser-based tool to aid future Mars missions in identifying evidence of life on the Red Planet.
Around 6 million years ago, during the so-called Messinian salinity crisis ... an enormous waterfall near Gibraltar refilled it over a period of tens of thousands of years. But in 2009, the ...